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GRAMMATICAL CONCEPTUALIZATION OF QUANTITY IN MODERN ENGLISH

GRAMMATICAL CONCEPTUALIZATION OF QUANTITY IN MODERN ENGLISH


Author:  S.N. Stepanenko

Affiliation:  Belgorod State University

Abstract
The article is an attempt to describe the role of language in the forming of the conceptual content of QUANTITY. The author studies the language means of grammatical quantity conceptualization in modern English. Cognitive and language mechanisms as well as additional linguistic factors of syntactical quantity conceptualization are described and visually demonstrated in static aspect and in the sentence-utterance.

Keywords:  language conceptualization of quantity, levels of quantity conceptualization, cognitive mechanisms of conceptualization, language mechanisms of conceptualization, additional linguistic factors

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