SEPARATION, PARTING, BREAKING: ABOUT RELATIONSTHROUGH THE PRISM OF ACTANT STRUCTURES

Abstract

The article discusses the use of a group of words that call the break up of relationship, separation, which include the nouns separation and break up.

The authors of the article study the semantics of these words in the Russian language on the basis of deep syntax, in the aspect of their actant structures. The concept of actant is the initial, defining one.

The authors note the high intensity of verbal word formation, especially in the sphere of nouns, as well as the tendency to maintain those verbal nouns that, according to explanatory dictionaries, have become obsolete, but, being formed according to regular and productive models, are supported by active word use, both in old and new meanings and contexts of use, as well as in various discourses.This fully applies to the noun separation, which, despite its bookishness and unpopularity of the model in colloquial speech, nevertheless turns out to be indispensable in expressing the semantics of the process by verbs to separate-to separate.

The authors came to the conclusion that the differences in the actant structures of the considered verbal names separation,  break up  inherited from the generating verbs and determining their significance in the system, allow us to Express in speech the subtle nuances of human relations.