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Notional Agreement in Modern English and Semantics of Compositionality of the Subject
- Authors: Borzilov A.D.1, Sal’kova M.A.1
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- Moscow State Linguistic University
- Issue: No 3(871) (2023)
- Pages: 22-29
- Section: Linguistics
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/2542-2197/article/view/351997
- ID: 351997
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The article looks into notional agreement and suggests a revised understanding of compositionality as a semantic dominant of the noun-subject in grammatical clauses - representatives of notional agreement. To justify homonymy in some groups of compositional nouns, semantic, contextual and conceptual methods of analysis are employed. The relevance of the study is determined by the lack of consistency and completeness in the present-day grammatical descriptions available.
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Aleksandr Dmitrievich Borzilov
Moscow State Linguistic University
Author for correspondence.
Email: adborz@mail.ru
Post-graduate Student, Department of English Grammar and History of the English Language, Faculty of the English Language
Russian FederationMarina Alekseevna Sal’kova
Moscow State Linguistic University
Email: smartletters@mail.ru
PhD (Linguistics), Associate Professor, Head of the Department of English Grammar and History of the English Language, Faculty of the English Language
Russian FederationReferences
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