Bilan N. Means of expressing the agent of the semantico-syntactic structure of Russian proverbs.

The objects are Russian proverbs. The aim is to reveal linguistic means that represent the agent of Russian proverbs. The methods are semantical-functional, cognitive, statistical, method of solid sampling, comparative, analogies, systematization and generalization. It has been proved that Ch. Fillmore considered noun-phrases to be the governing elements of the utterance semantic structure. Having studied the meaning of the whole semantico-syntactic structures of Russian proverbs, we have substantiated the actant government mechanism which corresponds to the character of the utterance generation process and allows analyzing all the semantico-syntactic structure elements - predicates whose meaning is formed by the significative component as well as actants named by the linguistic units of the complete meaning structure comprising both the denotative and significative constituents. It has been established that the main means of conveying the linguistic universal of activity / passivity is the hyperrelation of the semantico-syntactic structure created by the hyperroles of agent and patient that act at the level of the entire syntactic structures. It has been revealed that the linguistic means signifying the hyperrelation of Russian proverbial semantico-syntactic structures are the forms that express the linguistic categories of voice, modality and causality. The diagnostic character of the semantic criterion of +benefactiveness in ascribing the role of the agent to a human participant has been proved. Application sphere is the training courses.