with the predicate expressed by the evaluative adverb in colloquial speech
Semantic and syntactic mechanisms leading to the complication of the meaning of a simple
sentence are actively studied in modern linguistics. Colloquial speech is one of the spheres of
communication in which syntactic compression is widely represented. This paper analyses how
the syntactic N1Adv-o model functions in colloquial speech. In this model, the subject is most
often represented by specific nouns that can express a whole situation, often characterized by time
parameters. These specific nouns being the subjects of the sentences is the result of one of the
syntactic compression processes – nominalization. In this model, the predicate is expressed by
the evaluative adverb, usually reflecting a general, mostly positive, assessment, despite the fact
that negative evaluations are more widespread in colloquial speech. Other types of assessments
include aesthetic, normative, gustatory, intellectual, ethical, and utilitarian ones. The objects of
evaluative characterization usually turn out to be the objects of the material world, socio-cultural
phenomena and facts, personal qualities. In the N1Adv-o model sentences, functioning in colloquial speech, the speaker manifests himself most often as a subject, not an object of evaluation. The
total number of N1Adv-o model sentences is not great. In colloquial speech, their number is about
2.5 % of all sentences with the adverbs that are used in the function of a predicate. According to
our observations, the frequency of their use is much lower in other areas of communication (less
than 1 %). Thus, the sentences concerned can be considered as the significant characteristic of
colloquial speech and are more productive in it. The N1Adv-o model sentences reflect the trend
of analytism in the modern Russian language. They are characterized by increased implicitness
and, at the same time, by their semantic capacity.
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