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SOURCE:	Philology. Theory & Practice. Tambov: Gramota, 2016. № 10. Part 2. P. 64-67.
SCIENTIFIC AREA:	Philological Sciences
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SEMANTIC FEATURES OF ADJECTIVAL MODIFICATION IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Aksel'rud Dina Aronovna
Pyatigorsk State University

Abstract. This article is an attempt to explain the modification processes in the nominal group of the English language from cognitive perspectives. It reveals the multi-directionality of semantic influence of adjectives in its structure and determines the phenomenon of exo- and endo-modification that are conditioned by mereological and contextual characteristics of the head of nominal group and its position in the structure of a sentence and discourse.

Key words and phrases: модификатор, когнитивно-семантические параметры именной группы, композиция Adj+N, кроссдоменное свойство, экзомодификация, эндомодификация, семантический адвербиальный определитель, modifier, cognitive-semantic parameters of nominal group, composition Adj+N, cross-domain property, exo-modification, endo-modification, semantic adverbial qualifier

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