ON THE FORMATION OF NEW EXPLICATIVE CONSTRUCTION "AS IN" IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Kondrashova (Koz'mina) Vera Nikolaevna, Pospelova Aleksandra Georgievna
Saint Petersburg University
Abstract. The article examines the formation of a new explicative construction as in which became widely used in the English colloquial speech of the XXI century. The sentences with such construction are usually developed according to the model X as in Y. The authors identify that X and Y vary in structure and each of them can be the word, word combination or sentence. The study shows that the mentioned construction performs different communicative functions: identification, verification, commentary.
Key words and phrases: прагмалингвистика, конструкции, эллипсис, экспликация, десемантизация, союзы, pragma-linguistics, construction, ellipsis, explication, desemantization, conjunctions
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