ON THE QUESTION OF WAYS OF EXPRESSING THE SUBJECT IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article discusses the ways of expressing the subject in the Russian language. The analysis of the material shows that the grammatical functions of predicatives correlating with nouns in sentences with an infinitive are close to the grammatical functions of nouns as a predicate, and in semantics these predicatives approach the words ending with -o with the meaning of evaluation. The presence of an assessment in the predicate implies its attribution to a certain subject, which is designated by the subject. Such sentences are usually of two parts. The division into two compositions is clearer if the infinitive is in the prepositive position. The preposition of an infinitive is closely related to its lexical weight and affects the semantic relationship between them and the predicative word. The value of the evaluation of the predicative word looms clearer. The sentence intonationally splits into compositions. The subject expressed by the infinitive is incomplete in semantic and grammatical terms, since the subject of the judgment cannot always be substantive. Theoretically, the infinitive in the role of the subject is easily replaced by a verbal noun. However, in constructions with predicatives correlating with nouns, the infinitive-subject is not always capable of such a replacement. It depends on both the verb itself and the predicative.