Paradigmatic Factors Research Articles

SYNERGETIK DER NOMEN-DEKODIERUNG IN EINFACHER UND ZUSAMMENGESETZTER SATZSTRUKTUR DES DEUTSCHEN

The article focuses on the interaction of syntagmatic, semantic and paradigmatic factors in the generation of noun content in German according to linguosynergetic approach. The study highlights the main problems of the German noun polysemy and monosemy, considers the linguistic and contextual meanings of the noun as a carrier of encoded and decoded information and analyzes the generated noun content synergy in German-language fiction and publicistic texts. The results of the study were obtained under synergetic-quantitative approach and interpreted as synergistic constructs of noun name self-organization by the principle of least effort that directs the human mental lexicon to the optimal decoding of the actual information-semantic potential of polysemantic or monosemantic nouns in correlation with the category of sentences’ structure in German language.

Short story poetics and theoretical and methodological bases of research into Kipling’s short story cycle

According to the recent hypothesis, Kipling’s short stories are considered to be the products of the transformation of journalistic discourse into a literary one. Kipling’s short stories deal with the topic of “clashes” of Western and Eastern cultures. Linking these two cultural phenomena is an essential factor in his biography as well as poetics of his short stories and their internal connection needs to be considered in the analysis of the stories. This analysis should not only identify the traces of a report as a journalistic genre (even if at the level of subtext), but also confirm that Kipling’s work as a reporter implies his role as a representative of the Western culture. The given topic can be perceived as a problem due to the paradigmatic factor represented by its multidimensional nature i.e. the fact that it belongs to three dimensions of reality – linguistic, fictional and cultural.

Старочувашский памятник с различением датива и аккузатива

This paper introduces the linguistic evidence extracted from the first translation of the Gospel of Matthew into Chuvash, which was published in Kazan in 1820. On the basis of a detailed analysis of dialect-specific features, and especially phonological and morphological innovations, the attested variety should be classified among the Kărmăš—Xĕrlĕ Čutay varieties of Viryal Chuvash. Such a conclusion is consistent with the available extra-linguistic evidence regarding the dialect affiliation of this early Bible translation. Many of the archaic features found in the first translation of the Gospel of Matthew into Chuvash were previously documented in other preStandard Chuvash texts from the 18th—19th centuries. One salient feature that distinguishes the Gospel translation from the other contemporary sources is that the attested variety retains the old distinction between the dative and accusative case markers (after a limited number of lexical and grammatical morphemes). Modern Chuvash makes use of the syncretic dative-accusative case suffix -(n)A, dial. -(j)A, which developed through the merger of reflexes of Proto-Turkic dative and accusative case markers, owing to phonological and paradigmatic factors. The loss of the dative-accusative distinction is usually considered an early phenomenon in the history of Chuvash because there is no trace of such a distinction in the modern Chuvash dialects. However, the fact that at least one of the Viryal Chuvash varieties featured the dative-accusative distinction as late as the 19th century provides evidence for a recent origin of the case syncretism in Chuvash. This makes the first translation of the Gospel of Matthew into Chuvash a key source on the development of the Chuvash case system prior to the emergence of the dative-accusative syncretism.

The International Vocabulary of Russian and Slovenian Languages: Gender Category

Slovenian and Russian substantive internationalisms of different grammatical gender are compared in the present article. Five groups of internationalisms have been distinguished on the basis of the formed glossary based on the dictionaries of the two languages which includes about 450 pairs of lexemes with different gender characteristics: 1) Slovenian feminine ~ Russian masculine; 2) Slovenian masculine ~ Russian feminine; 3) Slovenian masculine ~ Russian neuter; 4) Slovenian feminine ~ Russian neuter; animated nouns constitute a separate group. The significant difference is the small number of neuter gender internationalisms in Slovenian, while there are a great number of such internationalisms in Russian; as well as the predominance of feminine gender borrowings in Slovenian. The analysis has illustrated that the internationalisms gender in both languages is determined by a common set of factors (the influence of gender of the prototype word, features of the morphological category of gender in language, lexical and semantic characteristics), which have different importance in the two languages. The influence of the prototype word gender is mainly characteristic in Slovenian, while structural and paradigmatic factors play a much larger role in Russian. The differences in the donor languages are of great importance for understanding the gender distinction of internationalisms in Slovenian and Russian. The time factor is more evident in Russian, where there is a gradual increasing importance of a paradigmatic factor in the gender determination of a number of borrowings, whereas for Slovenian, where a number of borrowings-internationalisms were formed later, the time factor does not play a big role.

STYLISTIC CHARACTERISTICS IN THE SYNERGETIC OF DECODING THE SEMANTIC VOLUME OF A NOUN (on the material of modern German-language fiction) Drebet

The article focuses on the interaction of syntagmatic, semantic and paradigmatic factors in the generation of noun content with its stylistic characteristics in the German language according to the linguosynergetic scientific approach, which treats the language as a complex and dynamic system capable of self-organizing and self-regulating by selecting the most optimal and most comfortable elements of speech tools to the language treasury. Methodologically important in the article is the position that the synergetic law of the least effort is the driving factor in language development. In synergetic terms the author of this article draw parallels between the vocabulary as a representative of the linguistic generalization of the structured amount of knowledge of the learned extra-linguistic reality and mental lexicon, which is not an arbitrary accumulation of inputs, but forms a structured hierarchical system of such inputs. If, in synergetic terms, lexical units and their meanings at the language level contain encoded structured information, then in the same way in the thesis the implementation of the word in one of its meanings at the speech level is considered as information decoding. In relation to the noun, the synergetic mechanism of least effort in the process of generating noun-information speech content implies that the human mental lexicon is directed at optimal decoding of the semantic volume of word with his stylistic status. The results of the study were obtained under synergetic-quantitative approach and then extrapolated to the linguosynergetic models of noun name self-organization by the principle of least effort that directs the human mental lexicon to the optimal decoding of the semantic volume of polysemantic or monosemantic nouns in correlation with their stylistic characteristics in German-language fiction. The study describes the build-up and inherent regulation of the polysemic/monosemic nouns semantic model in the synergetic cycle order-chaos-order thus enriching the German linguistics with the topical knowledge about the nouns in the German language.

THE COMPOUND NOUN-NEOLOGISMS AND THE SYNERGETICS OF THEIR SEMANTIC DECODING IN THE GERMAN-LANGUAGE PRESS

The article focuses on the interaction of syntagmatic, semantic and paradigmatic factors in the generation of noun content with the compound noun-neologisms, realized in the German-language press-texts, and their transformed semantic decoding as the main, derived and monosemic nomination according to the linguosynergetic scientific approach. This approach treats the language as a complex and dynamic system capable of self-organizing and self-regulating by selecting the most optimal and most comfortable elements of speech tools to the language treasury. Methodologically important in the article is the position that the synergetic law of the least effort is the driving factor in language development. In synergetic terms the author of this article draw parallels between the vocabulary as a representative of the linguistic generalization of the structured amount of knowledge of the learned extra-linguistic reality and mental lexicon, which is not an arbitrary accumulation of inputs, but forms a structured hierarchical system of such inputs. If, in synergetic terms, lexical units and their meanings at the language level contain encoded structured information, then in the same way in the thesis the implementation of the word in one of its meanings at the speech level is considered as information decoding.
 In relation to the noun, the synergetic mechanism of least effort in the process of generating noun-information speech content implies that the human mental lexicon is directed at decoding the optimal volume of the realized semantic potential of the compound noun-neologisms. Decoding of the noun semantics on the basis of the synergetic-quantitative approach of the research is interpreted as the process for establishing semantic features of the implemented noun nominations. The study gives the possibility to analyze of the synchronic level the results of the self-regulating and formation of the compound noun-neologisms in the synergetic cycle order-chaos-order thus enriching the German linguistics with the topical knowledge about the paradigmatic-syntagmatic models of the German language noun vocabulary. The proposed methodology of the research will serve as a useful aid in the lexicographic practice as well, since the proposed method of the semantic decoding of vocabulary information in the speech context should minimize possible subjectivity in the process of delimiting word meanings, show changes and replenishment of the word-stock, which will help to optimize the compiling of both explanatory and translation dictionaries of the German language.

The synergetics of the semantic decoding of the nouns with gender roles in the German-language press

The article focuses on the interaction of syntagmatic, semantic and paradigmatic factors in the generation of noun content with the category of gender in the German language according to the linguosynergetic scientific approach, which treats the language as a complex and dynamic system capable of self-organizing and self-regulating by selecting the most optimal and most comfortable elements of speech tools to the language treasury. Methodologically important in the article is the position that the synergetic law of the least effort is the driving factor in language development. In relation to the noun, the synergetic mechanism of least effort in the process of generating noun-information speech content implies that the human mental lexicon is directed at decoding the optimal volume of the realized semantic potential of monosemic and polysemic word models. The study describes the build-up and inherent regulation of the polysemic/monosemic nouns semantic model in the synergetic cycle order-chaos-order thus enriching the German linguistics with the topical knowledge about the paradigmatic-syntagmatic models of the German language noun vocabulary. The results of the study were obtained under synergetic-quantitative approach and then extrapolated to the linguosynergetic models of noun name self-organization by the principle of least effort that directs the human mental lexicon to the optimal decoding of the actual information-semantic potential of polysemantic or monosemantic nouns in correlation with the grammar category of gender in German-language publicistic texts.