SEMANTIC-GRAMMATIC SPECIFICITY OF THE E. I. NOSOV'S LANGUAGE (ON THE MATERIAL OF VERBS OF SPEECH ACTIVITY)
The creative heritage of the outstanding master of the word of art, the remarkable Kursk writer E. I. Nosov is an inexhaustible source for philologists, as it is a storehouse of linguistic and cultural information, serves as an example of linguistic mastery, performs an educational function, speaking about the best qualities of the soul of a Russian person, about love for nature, native land, about the duty of every citizen of his country; develops in the reader “aesthetic taste and creative abilities” [1, p. 62]. The article draws attention to the semantic and grammatical features of the language of E. I. Nosov. Much attention in the prose of the writer is given to verbs of speech. Verbs of speech activity, which are among the most high-frequency ones in the language in general, have high word usage in the language of the works of E. I. Nosov. Frequency in combination with imagery, gives special significance to verbs of speech, served as the reason for the choice of these verbs as the subject of analysis in this article. The purpose of this article is to comprehend the semantic and grammatical features of the verbs of speech in the prose of E. I. Nosov, not involving an analysis of their artistic functions. The relevance of the article is determined by the fact that, analyzing the linguistic picture of the world of E. I. Nosov, the authors pay attention to the peculiarities of the creative manner of the writer. The practical significance of the work is not in doubt, because it allows the reader to penetrate into the "secrets" and "mysteries" of the Russian word, makes it possible to feel the imagery of the language of the writer E. I. Nosov, to pay attention to the semantic and grammatical features of the writer's language that have not yet been studied. We believe that the material of the article will be in demand by lexicologists and syntaxists, in addition, by lexicographers when creating the dictionary of the language of E. I. Nosov. The work has undoubted scientific novelty, because it considers the specificity of verbs of speech in the work of E. I. Nosov, which has not been fully studied by linguists. The result of the study was a description of the specifics of speech verbs, their role in creating the speech characteristics of characters and artistic reality in the works of E. I. Nosov. The work used the comparative method and the observation method, methods of describing, generalizing and classifying the material used, applied elementary statistical calculations.