REFERENTIAL FEATURES OF DISTANCE MARKING ADJECTIVESWITH TEMPORAL SEQUENCE MEANING IN ENGLISH

Abstract

The author identifies the ability of English distance marking adjectives to imply the temporal sequence meaning in primary attributive and secondary adverbial functions. The article describes the referential analysis of deep-semantic structures which represents the distance marking adjectives with temporal sequence meaning. Analyzing the time markers the author uses the method of deep semantic reconstruction based on the semantic primitive method. The author conducts his research studying the examples from XIX-XX centuries English and American writers’ works. The author found out that distance marking adjectives can imply temporal sequence meaning in both adverbial ((prep.) + adj. + time period noun) and primary attributive functions mainly as a referential moment in a phrase. The referential features of non-verbal time markers are not extensively studied yet. The results of the work can be used in referential analysis methodology in general linguistics, Germanic and Russian philology, in translation theory. The article is adressed to the specialists in the field of Russian and comparative linguistics.