The concepts of absolute/relative characteristic features in the context of linguistic parametrization (in Russian and Bulgarian languages) Cover Image

Понятия абсолютный/относительный признак в контексте языковой параметризации (на материале русского и болгарского языков)
The concepts of absolute/relative characteristic features in the context of linguistic parametrization (in Russian and Bulgarian languages)

Author(s): Stefka Petkova-Kaleva
Subject(s): Semantics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: semantic category; size; norm;

Summary/Abstract: The paper dwells on the semantic category ‘size-dimension’. It focuses on the specifics of the absolute and relatively linguistic size. The linguistic structures interpret the size of the objects from four different kinds of norms: the norm of kind (the average standard in the representation of the size feature), the situational norm, the norm of proportionality and the norm of expectation. Each one of these kinds has its own linguistic representation. The object of description and analysis in the present paper are the exhibit structures reflecting the size with respect to the situational norm in Russian and Bulgarian languages.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 69-82
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Russian