Article

Name: System relations in the sphere of tautologies

Authors: Tatyana I. Steksova

Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section Linguistics

Abstract:

Tautological constructions have already been thoroughly studied in linguistics and described in terms of their semantic and pragmatic properties. The purpose of this paper is to identify the relations between the different types of tautologies: predicative units, syntactic phrases, and reduplicated lexemes. Derivation relations of different types are distinguished. The derivation of predicative units is found to be due to the linking verb being replaced by a pronoun: “Zhena est’ zhena” (A wife is a wife) → “Zhena kak zhena” (A wife as a wife). At the same time, synonymous meanings and a shift in semantics, adding an extra pragmatic meaning, are possible. On the one hand, the derivativeness of syntactic phrasemes is due to the complete loss of the verbal copula, making the new characteristics of tautology appear. This process involves a tautological combination performing one syntactic function, most often of a predicate, and the impossibility of extension or insertion of other words. On the other hand, a tautological phraseme is formed by repeating the rhematic lexeme of the previous statement with the loss of its rhematicity and the manifestation of the meaning of irrelevance, indifference to the reported information: “Petr priekhal! – Nu priekhal i priekhal, chemu ty tak raduesh’sya?” (Peter has arrived! – Well, arrived and arrived, what are you so happy about?). It is concluded that all tautological units can enter the systemic interrelations of synonymy, homonymy, and antonymy.

Keywords: Russian language, tautological constructions, predicative unit, syntactic phrase, system rela-tions, derivativeness

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