Bogovyk O. Semantic and Syntactic Typology of Predicates of Knowledge in English, Ukrainian and Russia

This thesis offers a new comparative typological approach to establishing semantic and syntactic types of knowledge in English, Ukrainian and Russian languages. The register of predicates of knowledge has been constructed. These predicates have been classified according to three types: knowledge-information, knowledge-acquaintance, knowledge-competence. Lexical and morphological expressions of subject and object syntaxemes determining by the valency of these predicates have been explained in the way of comparison. The clause-generating potential of predicates of knowledge has been distinguished from reliance on formal features and principles of informative adequacy. The correlative relations between formal-grammatical and semantic-syntactical levels of analyzed constructions have been defined in English, Ukrainian and Russian.