PECULIARITIES OF PERSON NAMES COMPATIBILITY IN SUBJECT AND PREDICATE FUNCTIONS WITH ADJECTIVES IN RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH

Abstract

This article describes the peculiarities of person names compatibility in syntactic functions of predicate and subject with adjectives in Russian and English. The topic relevance is determined by the insufficient knowledge in the field of person names concretizing means and limitations of their syntactic functions in comparative terms. The purpose of the article is to analyze the person’s name attributive dependence on its possibilities of implementing various syntactic
functions in an utterance. The task involves an appropriate analysis of attributive compatibility limitations and the restrictions of the predicate and subject syntactic function implementation by the person names in Russian and English. The study objects are utterances from Russian and English linguistic corpus including the nouns of the declared semantics. The article uses the methods of component, distribution analysis. This article is done in line with the researches
of spatial reference carried by E.V. Paducheva and N.D. Harutyunova. It is established that it is semantic meaning of a person name that influences its predicative status. It is found out that in English statements some person names are not adopted for predicatization, moreover, adjectives combined with the same person name represent different meanings depending on its syntactic function.