THE STUDY OF THE MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF WORDS WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF COGNITIVE MORPHOLOGY

Abstract

The article considers the basics of the cognitive approach to the analysis of language units. The purpose of the article is to establish the basic principles of cognitive morphology, which are based on the principles of cognitive grammar and which can be used for the analysis of the morphological structure of any word. They are the following: morphological units should be investigated in the light of human experience, cognitive processes of man and his/her vision; morphological units have prototype structures; the morphological structure of a word from a certain language depends on the peculiarities of this language; grammatical rules depend partially on semantic properties of lexical units; semantic structures should be characterized with the reference to the ways of interiorisation of reality; conventional links among morphological structures are identified through metaphoric and metonymic processes; cognitive morphology is of imaginary character. It is proposed to use the technique of frame patterning to analyze the morphological structure of the word. The choice of the morphological structure of a word depends on the type of a frame pattern. This study will be useful for those who are in line with a new approach to the analysis of language units - cognitive morphology.