Open AccessSEMANTIC FEATURES OF RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH ADVERBS OF INSIGNIFICANCE
Author(s) -
Mariya V. Gladysheva
Publication year - 2021
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.33065/978-5-907216-49-5-2021-3-11
Subject(s) - computer science , meaning (existential) , natural language processing , linguistics , frame (networking) , semantics (computer science) , insignificance , artificial intelligence , psychology , philosophy , programming language , telecommunications , psychotherapist
The paper offers the results of experimental research into semantics of Russian adverbs nemnogo, neskolko, slegka, otchasti and English adverbs somewhat, a little, slightly, partly. Despite their rich syntactic potential and functional polyvalence, Russian adverbs are still relatively under-researched.The author relies on a complex research procedure based on hypothesisdeduction method (with semantic experiment as its integral part), corpus-based experiment and the analysis of search engine results. The preliminary stage of the research into the meaning of the adverbs consists in gathering information on their distribution, valence characteristics and all possible contexts. The author has studied about 2 500 examples and contexts. The results of this preliminary analysis enable to frame a hypothesis on the meaning of the linguistic units in question. Then the author proceeds to the experimental verification of the proposed hypotheses supported by Russian corpus-based experiment and the analysis of Google search results. The research findings result in stricter semantic descriptions of the adverbs in question.