Khorovets V. Cognitive and Grammatical Constructing of Prepositional Causativity/Causality in English, Modern Greek and Ukrainian

This thesis offers a new theoretical and methodological concept for comparison of cognitive and grammatical constructing of prepositional causativity/causality in English, Modern Greek and Ukrainian; 5 common types of variant and invariant models of prepositional constructing of causative situations in English, Modern Greek and Ukrainian have been identified; lists of causal prepositions that are markers of cause and effect relationship for each language under research have been compiled; grammatical prepositional constructing of a segment of the functional-semantic field of causality in English, Modern Greek and Ukrainian has been carried out by means of revealing its centre-periphery structure; general characteristics of cognitive and grammatical constructing of prepositional causativity/causality as well as differences connected with national cultural differences in perception of causal situations and their conseqences by each nation and the grammatical structure of English, Modern Greek and Ukrainian have been identified.