The system of invariant sign language event-driven relations expressions

Onomasiological linguistics has not yet investigated all the problems of nomination. Such few practically researched problems concern propositional nomination. V.G. Gak in 1960s noted the presence of not only lexical, but also propositional signs. Subsequently in his articles he repeatedly described the features of propositional nomination and propositional signs - nominants, event-driven according to the reflected extra-linguistic contents and propositional by the form of expression. V.G. Gak described many phenomena which mention not only the problem of the sentence as a semantic-syntactical structure or a type of a syntagma, but also as a sign reflecting its substratum - an extra-linguistic event (in other terminology - an extra-linguistic situation). A number of known Russian linguists (I.P. Sussov, V.V. Bogdanov, V.G. Gak) defined the concept of event as a relative formation. We define event as a functional relation between cooperating substances. The language consciousness of the nominator classifies individual events, brings out their repeating functional characteristics and creates in its consciousness a prototype of a generalized event with identical, distinct from others, functional relationship between the participants. In the language consciousness of the nominators the image of invariants of such events is created, released from occasional participants, which are not participating in the formation of the functional type of event. However, onomasiological propositional semantics does not investigate typical events themselves, but the laws, features, and results of their projection. As well as any theory, the theory of propositional nomination requires both the description of dynamics and results of separate displays of the nomination and finding system laws of propositional nomination. In the present article the idea of the two sides of propositional signs is presented on the basis of the postulate on the bilateral essence of a language sign. The explication of this fact on the system basis concerns the novelty of interpretation of the essence of propositional nominants. The semantic-syntactical principle of classification of propositional nominants is presented; functional propositional expressions of the revealed invariants with various functional event-driven relations between constituents in propositional nominants with verbal predicates are shown. Based on the examples of categorical propositional invariants of expressions with functional relations of addressing and of location, functional dependence and functional motivation of every constituent of the propositional nominant in its signified, as well as its signifier, is shown. Functional interpretation of the essence of constituents' relations of propositional nominants represents the novelty of research.

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