ENGLISH SEMIMARKED STRUCTURES IN THE SYSTEM OF SPACE MEASUREMENT
The article deals with the peculiarities of some specific structures which are characterized by the abnormality of lexical and grammatical agreement. The given structures referred to as ‘semimarked ones’ are widely used in the English language and, among other things, for expressing space measurements. To gain a better insight into the relations between the categories of space and measure the above-mentioned structures were included into the peripheral zone of the functional-semantic field representing the measures of length. The core of the field includes the metric system units and some traditional ones used in English-speaking countries. The periphery is formed, mostly, by various means of language expressing inaccurate and unspecified measures.
Keywords: category of space, category of measure, unspecified measure, semimarked structure, functionalsemantic field
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Issue: 10, 2016
Series of issue: Issue 10
Rubric: GERMANIC AND ROMANCE LANGUAGES
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