EXPERIENCER AS QUASI-AGENT: «FROM MEANING TO THE LINGUISTIC FORM»

Authors
М.А. Fomina
Affiliation
Moscow City University
Issue 40
Pages
112-136

The paper focuses on the category of semantic subject within the framework of a functional approach to linguistics. The variety of roles subject may have in a sentence accounts for the radially structured category of subject. With the agent subject being the center of the category, other members – Possessor, Experiencer, Neutral, etc. – appear to be scattered within the syntactical category of subject being more central or peripheral. The paper deals with the Experiencer subject. The author stresses the key role of a well-elaborated metalanguage in linguistic analysis and assumes that a thorough analysis of the relevant conceptual category, its structure and content, should precede the stage of developing a metalanguage. The paper 1) differentiates between similar though not interchangeable notions such as semantic subject, grammatical subject, and the bearer of predicative feature, 2) features the peripheral status of the Experiencer within the category of semantic subject, 3) reveals the means of its linguistic representation, 4) makes a structural and semantic analysis of the models with the Experiencer.

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Fomina, М.А. Experiencer as quasi-agent: «from meaning to the linguistic form». Issues of Applied Linguistics, 40, 112-136. 

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