Semantic Analysis of Cause-Effect Relation in Linguistics in the Context of Philosophical Scientific Thought
The article determines the methods for investigating the semantic potential of linguistic units by analyzing the cause-effect relation in the English complex sentences with the causative conjunctions ‘because”, “as”, “since”, “for” and the English proverbs represented by syntactically compressed sentences. The specification of their cause-effect semantics is carried out in terms of philosophical concepts and categories, which allows to study and to more accurately interpret the variety of cause-effect relations in linguistics. The article details the features of cause-effect relations and how they are objectified in the language. The article also presents an algorithm for semantic analysis, which makes it possible to model the semantic structure of the conjunctions because, as, since, for and to define the semantic types of the proverbs under study.