Ukrainian paremies: laws of creation

Abstract

The article highlights one of the main ways of creating Ukrainian paremias, which is a determinant limitation of the scope of judgment. This strategy transforms categorical general judgments, often marked by aphorisms, imagery, and even paradoxicality, into non-categorical ones. This function is inherent in all singular forms of the noun, including in the nominative case. The objectives of the research: to determine the ability of the nominative case forms of nouns to perform determinant functions in Ukrainian proverbs, as well as to establish the most frequent lexicosemantic groups of nouns in this function. The complex of research methods is used in the work: The study is based on a descriptive method, and also uses lexico-semantic, transformational and frequency analysis. Theoretical results: observations on nouns in the nominative case, which reveal a determinant function, expand theoretical ideas about the repertoire of forms of expression of determinants and duplexes, show new, not yet fixed possibilities of the language system. Empirical results: The application of the method of continuous sampling allowed determining the most frequent in the composition of proverbs lexical groups of forms of the nominative case with determinant functions. The vast majority here are substantivized adjectives that name persons. The most common among them are the names of people by mental abilities, by ethical qualities, by state of health, by alcohol consumption, by age, by wealth, by education. Rarely, determinative word forms of the noun in proverbs are a means of naming abstract entities.