SUBSTANTIVE PHRASES AS A TIME SIGN IN B. ZAYTSEV’S STORY «BLUE STAR»

Abstract

In the article, on the material of Boris Zaitsev’s story «Blue Star», the author highlights a substantive phrase as a special phenomenon, a linguistic unit, which enables a module way of making sentence a complex one. The paper explores how in categories of space, the time filled with events is perceived and conceptualized. It is proved that, depending on the lexical-semantic content of a substantive phrase; on the availability of its distributor; on the meaning and form of verbal predicate, which interacts with a phrase; on the presence of ideas of motion, temporal syntaxemes, temporal adverbs and particles in a sentence, a substantive phrase can express undifferentiated spatiotemporal values.