BLOCK DIAGRAM AS A SYNTACTIC CONCEPT (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE CONCEPT “OBJECT OF BEING”)

Abstract

The notion of a concept in linguistics has been present for a long time and has been studied quite thoroughly, as for the grammatical concept or, in other words, syntactic, its research began relatively recently and is quite relevant today. At the present stage, the concept of a syntactic concept is considered from the perspective of cognitive linguistics and is understood as a kind of mental unit, the plan of the content of which is a typical sentence, and the plan of its expression is determined by a block diagram.  The material for this article is examples from the National Corpus of the Russian language. The methodology of the work is based on the concept of Volokhina G.A., Popova Z.D. on the existence of standard propositions that have been consolidated using syntactic constructions (positional and structural schemes of simple preposition). The scientific novelty lies in a systematic approach combining elements of cognitive and specifically textual analysis. The article considers models of deep structures, identifies categories of a proposition, its typical samples, for the reproduction of which there are permanent structural schemes of a simple sentence (SSPP) in the language. The analysis of the syntactic concept “being of an object” is presented, which contains four components defining its proposition: some object exists in space and in time “who/what is (exists) where when.” Depending on the availability of positions, the concept can vary from 4-position to single-position. The syntactic system of a particular language is formed through the structural schemes of a simple sentence, which are signs of syntactic concepts. The theoretical significance of the work consists in testing the analysis of cognitive material based on examples from fiction. This work should help students of the specialty "Russian language and literature" in identifying the main syntactic schemes representing the concept of being an object.