USING COMMUNICATIVE MARKERS WHEN FORMULATING A GRAMMAR RULE IN THE COURSE OF RUSSIAN AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE
The article justifies the adequacy of introducing the concept of a communicative marker - an easily recognized indicator, which helps foreign students to choose an adequate linguistic means when constructing a statement in Russian. Communicative markers are considered from the viewpoint of their usage when formulating a grammar rule. The paper considers the basic types of communicative markers, ascertains hierarchical relations between them and identifies a principle to combine communicative markers within a grammar rule. By the example of the topic “Expression of Cause”, the author shows the usage of the concept “communicative marker” when formulating a grammar rule.