MAIN LINGUISTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CONCEPT OF PREDICATIVENESS

Abstract

The purpose of our research is: to show the concept of predicativeness in various senses, such as a structural feature, a basic feature of any sentence or statement as a speech frame, a sign of a certain kind (or a type), which is explained, first of all, through the form of the verb, which, in turn, is characterized by specific categories of time, a person and a manner; to explain predicativeness as a syntactical modality, a special quasi-communicative characteristic of a sentence. We think that predicativeness corresponds to modality. We’ve shown, that the essence of the linguistic transformation is that during the application of the predicative rule, the linguistic presentation of the secondary predicate in the structure of the secondary predication takes place, which in any case leads to the formation of a separate predicational unit and, above all, indicates that the sentence with these structures contain several planes (or aspects) of predication. Thus, analyzing the object-predication structure as Object Infinitive Complex using transformational analysis, we refer the Object Predicational Structure to the Structure of Secondary Predication, which: it is a binary structure consisting of a Secondary Subject and a Secondary Predicate. The Secondary Subject is expressed by a noun in the Nominative Case or a Pronoun in the Objective Case. The Secondary Predicate is expressed by the indefinite form of the verb (the Infinitive, Participle I, Participle II, a Gerund) or a non-verbal part of speech; depends on the structure of the primary predication, performing the function of a Complex Object in the sentence.