NOMINATHEME OF A COMPLEX TYPE AND FEATURES OF ITS IMPLEMENTATION IN SPEECH (ON THE MATERIAL OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE)

Abstract

The question of defining language units is of paramount importance in linguistic theory. A comprehensive description of the basic unit of language reveals the dependence on the choice of approach to the identification of language invariants. The article identifies two paradigms for its solution – word-centric and non-word-centric. Traditional linguistics is characterized by the tendency to distinguish word-combinations and other units together with words as having semantic, and hence nominative integrity. The basic types of nominative units are considered to be the consequences of linguistic nomination (words-syntagms, glosses, simple and complex modifications of the corresponding nominatheme), and the basic unit of linguistic nomination is the nominatheme. The article considers in detail the nominathemes-word-combination, ie the nominathemes of the complex type and their structural varieties. These include all semantically identical units, namely: idiomatized word-combination, ie colocation; phraseologized word-combination; combination of a full word with office and analytical lexical and grammatical variants; the univerbalized equivalent of a word-combination, ie the word that appeared as a result of verbal modification of the wordcombination, is identical to it in the lexical-grammatical coordinate system. The purpose of the article is to determine the parameters of identification of nominathemes of the complex type, research of ways of realization of the basic nominative unit and features of embodiment of the nominatheme of complex type in speech and text. Research methods and techniques. The study used a number of methods that allowed to study the problem as objectively as possible and draw certain conclusions. In particular, the method of continuous sampling is used to accumulate factual material, and the method of distributive analysis – to differentiate concepts. Conclusions. The main nominative unit is a certain invariant – a word or word-combination – on the basis of the criteria of nominativeness and semantic-grammatical identity of all its implementations.