Word form "pravda" in periphery of nouns: indexing of first modalation stage

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to study the degree to which differential features of substantive word forms such as "pravda", "fakt", "chush'", "nonsens" that represent the periphery noun zone on the modalation scale in the typical contexts match, on the one hand, differential features of prototypical representatives of the initial point of transposition, i.e. the nuclear noun, and on the other hand, the prototypical representatives of the endpoint of transposition, i.e. the nuclear denominative modal words. Through the methods of oppositional analysis, indexing, linguistic experiment, distributive and transformational analysis, the author has established and characterized the transposition stages of nouns of the "pravda" type into the category of parenthetic-modal components of the utterance, which explicate the modus subject's assessment of the communicated information in the aspect of persuasiveness. Using the example of the peripheral noun "pravda", the procedure of calculating the degrees of its modalation is shown. Combinatorics and the proportion of features of interacting nouns and parenthetic-modal units are discovered in the structure of the studied word form. Observations and conclusions can be used for a comprehensive description of the mechanism of modalation of words and word forms from different parts of speech.