
English Phrasal Verbs as Cognitive and Semantic Complexes and Fragment of Multilateral Knowledge of Matrix Format
Author(s) -
N. M. Bober
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
naukovij časopis nacìonalʹnogo pedagogìčnogo unìversitetu ìmenì m.p. dragomanova. serìâ 09. sučasnì tendencìï rozvitku mov
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2523-4242
pISSN - 2414-4797
DOI - 10.31392/npu-nc.series9.2018.18.02
Subject(s) - computer science , verb , linguistics , cognition , component (thermodynamics) , natural language processing , cognitive linguistics , selection (genetic algorithm) , terminology , artificial intelligence , psychology , philosophy , physics , neuroscience , thermodynamics
The article suggests a novel approach to the study of the English phrasal verbs, which is currently at the frontier of the cognitive syntagmatics. Based on the works in this domain, this paper specifies the definition of phrasal verbs as cognitive-semantic complexes which represent / describe a certain fragment of multi-dimensional knowledge of the matrix format. Particular attention is paid to the critical analysis of the scholars’ views on the problem of the second component of these entities, which to this day are not univocal both in terms of discussing their functions performed in the structure of the phrasal verbs, and of their morphological nature and the associated terminology.It is assumed that the semantics of the phrasal verbs is created by the interaction of the conceptual structures of both the verb, and its second component, where the abstract meaning of the latter gives wide opportunities for evolving of new meanings. In this case, the function of both components of a compositionally complex linguistic unit or a cognitive-semantic complex, which is a phrasal verb, consists in the profiling of certain aspects of the situation described by this formation, contributes to the new properties, which otherwise cannot be individually described/labelled by none of its components: neither the verb nor the post-positive component.It has been proved that the English language possesses a characteristic cognitive-semantic construct “verb + postpositive component” that reflects a certain grammatical pattern of the combinatorial construction of phraseological entities bases on the mechanisms of conceptual integration, when the metaphorical selection of the verb initial mental space and the initial space of the postpositive component form a new blend - a new conceptual structure which absent in the initial mental spaces of each of the components.