Sentences with predicate verbs of quality change in the text on natural sciences
The article is focused on defining and presenting the characteristic features of language presentation of the situation denoting qualitative change in the scientific text. This type of text reflects scientific knowledge about the world by means of verbalization of theories, laws, hypotheses, facts, theorems, etc. The specific character of language representation of the given situation is identified by semantic and syntactic analysis of the sentences with predicate verbs denoting quality change. English articles on natural sciences served as a source of material for analysis. The essential peculiarity of language realization of quality change in the scientific text lies in focusing attention on the object of change, which is achieved by putting the explicit object in the first position of the sentence formal structure. The successive verbalization of various participants of the situation of change in the formal structure of the sentence and the use of numerous adverbial modifiers of different classes contribute to revealing the complex phased process of change.