THE QUANTITATIVE CHANGE OF SET EXPRESSIONS IN SPEECH: CONDITIONS AND RESULTS
Т.В. Сафонова · Tula Scientific Bulletin History Linguistics · 2024
The article examines the problem of set expressions changing according to a quantitative parameter, putting forward a hypothesis about the dependence of the reduction processes and distri-bution of their component composition on the structure specifics. This task predetermines the necessi-ty to cover a number of additional issues: the concept of ‘set expressions’ (SE), their place in the lin-guistic system, variation. The methods of continuous sampling, quantitative-statistical, and observations of the use of SE in speech used in the study allow us to confirm the hypothesis put for-ward and come to the following main conclusions: quantitative variation is aimed primarily at chang-ing the plan of expression of these phrases, therefore the final result of such a transformation is largely determined by the nature of the form source units; according to existing research, quantitative varia-tion itself can be represented by a reduction (implication) of the lexical extent of a unit - this is an el-lipsis with intonation of incompleteness and intonation completeness, isolating a fragment or word from the composition of the SE, as well as an increase in the lexical extent of a unit (explication) – dis-tribution by one or more components original unit, contamination; for a simple SE structure, it is more typical to isolate fragments equivalent to phrasemes and/or lexemes; for SE organized according to the model of a complex sentence - ellipsis with intonation of completeness, when reduction is carried out along a structural-semantic seam, provided that the predicative parts are equivalent, both parts can be reduced, the grammatical dependence of the components predetermines the reduction of only one fragment; during contamination, units of complex structure are reduced, followed by the parts combination and the obligatory preservation of one of the original SE models, taken as a phraseologi-cal basis.