Peculiarities of the comparative expression in Russian proverbs with a comparative degree of adverb
The article describes structures with forms of comparative degree of adverbs used in Russian proverbs. The author describes the specificity of these constructions, conditioned by the property of qualitative adverbs to adhere to the verb, as well as by the genre nature of proverbs that have a high degree of laconicism and implicitness. Verbs are mainly the objects of comparison (comparats) in adverbs, and the second verb is often omitted in proverbs. To analyze such structures, the author restored all the necessary structural components. The classification of comparison objects is based on a number of parameters: the number of situations to be compared (the situation with one action and the subject-reference / situation with several compared actions); the actors, producing actions (situations with one subject / different subjects); the uniformity (occurring in different circumstances) / non-uniformity of actions, etc. In the characteristic of each variety of investigated designs, the author determined standard semantics and linguistic ways of expressing objects of comparison and comparatives (parametric, evaluative, etc.). The article fixed the cases that can not be uniquely interpreted. The study makes it possible to identify both the peculiarities of proverbs as a special genre and constructions with comparatives of adverbs, based on the stable structures of linguistic consciousness.