Lemish N. Communicative, Pragmatic, Structural, and Semantic Characteristics of Causal Complex in Modern Germanic, Romance and Slavic Languages: Contrastive and Typological Aspects.

The thesis offers a new polyparadigmatic approach to studying the communicative, pragmatic, structural, and semantic features of the causal complex in five Indo-European languages related both closely (Ukrainian and Russian, English and Dutch) and distantly (Ukrainian and English, Ukrainian and Dutch, Ukrainian and Spanish). The causal complex as a product of conceptualization and categorization has been considered from ontological and epistemological standpoints. Taking into account the fact that the fragment of reality represented in the mind of a human being with the causal complex as a mental and logical construct, is subject to limitation and interpretation y a speaker, the thesis introduces a new scientific term of "verterality" to designate an integral causality feature resulting in the certain CAUSALITY syntactic concept objectivization in the speaker’s mind in the process of actualization.