GRAMMATICAL STATUS OF PRONOUNS IN MODERN ENGLISH
Journal Title: Мова - Year 2016, Vol 0, Issue 25
Abstract
The object of the study of this article is the points of view of the linguists on grammatical status of pronouns in Modern English. The subject of our investigation is cognitive characteristics of pronouns in Modern English and possibilities of their representation in classifications of pronouns. The purpose of our work is to try to find adequate criteria for classification of pronouns in Modern English. Methodologically our research is based upon the laws of cognition, on such psychological categories as conceptual category, archetype. The descriptive analysis and comparison were used. The findings of our work include principles of classification of pronouns in Modern English. Practical value of our research consists in possibility of acquiring its results in the course of teaching English as a foreign language and in possibility of their use in fundamental cognitive investigations of the parts of speech of the English language. Results of our work are: 1) the prototype theory can be very effective in helping to classify the miscellaneous group of pronouns according to the conceptual categories they reflect, it can also help to explain the cases of hypostasis within the subgroups of pronouns; 2) pronouns can be united on the ground of their common function — to point to a certain phenomena of the objective world without identifying it, they are associated with different conceptual categories (substance, possession, location, temporality, quality, quantity) which explains differences in their formal characteristics.
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Natalia G. Moiseienko
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