TITLE: THE COGNITIVE-CONCEPTUAL PRINCIPLE IN STUDYING AND RESEARCHING TYPES OF UNITS – SIGNS OF VARIOUS LEVELS OF LANGUAGE HIERARCHY

Abstract

1. When studying any linguistic units used in one way or another to verbalize a specific cognitive or conceptual semantics, the cognitive (conceptual) principle directly applies. This principle suggests that any linguistic unit, including a syntactic one, is naturally endowed with the ability to represent a certain linguistic reality (linguistic semantics or relation) that strictly correlates with the corresponding conceptual semantics, subject to proper objectification, along with other syntactic verbal means. At the same time, the proportion of verbalization of a particular conceptual semantics by different types of verbal means in languages may vary due to their idiomaticity. This principle is particularly important and necessary in modeling, along with others, grammatical – more precisely, syntactic – categories.