Журнал «Филоlogos»

WORD-COMBINATION «ТО ЖЕ (САМОЕ), ЧТО» AS A PART OF MEANS OF EXPRESSING THE RELATIONS OF IDENTIFICATION

Author: Figurovskaya G.D.

Constructions with the combination «то же (самое), что» are divided into two groups: 1) the ones of referential identity and 2) constructions with relations of identification; the second group is divided into sentences of nominative identity and subjective identification. The combination то же (самое) is a specialized mean of expressing relations of identification. Sentences of referential identity are represented by a number of structural and semantic varieties which are determined by the syntactic function of the combination то же, by presence / absence of the predicate in the second part, by the presence in the structure of the same subject or different ones and ultimately, the degree of proximity of such structures to a compound sentence (SCS) of pronominal-correlative type according to its structure. Among these sentences it is necessary to distinguish the constructions with то же (самое) as a subject and additions, circumstances and with то же (самое) as a predicate. The first two groups belong to the class of complex sentences. Due to the lexical content of these sentences different connotations of compliance relations are developed in them; sentences with то же самое as circumstances of the cause, goal, etc. (из-за того же, что и, для того же, что и и т. п.) are the transition types between CSF of referential identity sentences and CSF of cause, goal, etc. То же (самое) as a predicate can bind either two infinitives, or two names in Nominative case. They express two meanings - of the nominative identity and subjective identification ones. In the first case то же самое, что converges to the conjunction то есть. In the second case, the sentence informs about the similarity of those entities in the form of identity. Thus, in these constructions the combination то же самое, что goes into the category of function words, it is a specialized means expressing the relations of identification, i.e. it is a metaconstruction. The semantics of identification must be distinguished from the semantics of assimilation: unlike assimilation, identification emphasizes the subjectivity of the established relationship. All of the structural and semantic varieties can have negative variants, which express either denial of the notions identity, or the difference, as opposed to identification. Such sentences are the transition types between constructive-syntactic fields of identification and contrast.