CONCEPTUALIZATION AND CATEGORIZATION OF SIMPLEX DEVERBAL NOUNS WITH -ER

In: HUMANITARIAN RESEARCHES, p. 117-124

Abstract

The article reveals the conceptualization and categorization peculiarities of simplex deverbal nouns with -er. The research is based on the extensive empiric material and is carried out at the interface of the structural and cognitive linguistics theories. The latter are represented by the methods of semantic decomposition, structural and cognitive-semantic analysis along with the method of conceptual modeling. The carried out analysis has allowed the author to elucidate that the lexis stratum under study falls into the subcategories with the cognitive basis expressed via the concepts "animate doer', "instrument", "event" and "purpose location". Having processed the empirical data the author highlights and systema- tizes the integral and differential parameters which underlie the meaning of the -er nominatives from the above mentioned categories. It has also been found out that the category "an- imate doer" has the most complicated conceptual structure and serves as a feeder for the other categories. These observations indicate the anthropocentricity of the -er deverbals semantics.