THEORETICAL, DESCRIPTIVE AND COGNITIVE ISSUES OF VALENCY

Abstract

The article focuses on an overview analysis of the contradictory interpretation of the phenomenon of valency in linguistics. The types of valency are described based on their content and structural characteristics from the perspective of the implementation of syntactic relations, semantic content and the position of its relationship to communicative activity. The disagreements in the definition of this linguistic phenomenon caused by different stages of the formation of modern linguistics and related research methods are substantiated. The main relevant parameters of the study of valency are determined, which relate to the latest achievements of cognitive science based on the concept of an individual’s perception of information about extra-linguistic reality through certain mental constructs fixed in the linguistic structure. The conclusion is made about the need for a comprehensive approach to the study of the grammatical phenomenon of valency and for unified criteria for describing its essence from the standpoint of cognitology which allows to remove many contradictions in the traditional consideration of its phenomenon as well as to determine all kinds of conflicting linguistic facts.