Cognitive-Onomasiological Dimension of Instrumental Comparison in Ukrainian Literary Texts

Abstract

Our purpose is to determine the instrumental casealong with comparative semantics in adverbial function within the Ukrainian literary language. Noclassical grammarist has a strong theoretical account of structures like this. The cognitive character of the process of meaningmaking is not properly taken into account. The oblique comparison into instrumental in which case is the one of lndirect nomination of a property. And it parallels the processes of conceptualization and associative interpretation. Samples of literary texts from different stages and the Ukrainian language were used as originals. The research was carried out with use of continuous sampling, contextual analysis and semantic modeling (both cognitive- onomasiological interpretation). The theoretical framework employed is the frame approach. It provides an overview of the meaning of case in terms of object, action, possessive,identification, and comparison. According to the research it has been argued that the construction with instrumental adjectives are motivated by associative and structural-metaphorical motivation. Comparison sources and targets are based miragent and mirreferent nodes that mainly relates to concrete nouns. Analogues abound in form, and quality. The formations are derived from breakdown of relief predicativity and the conversium of parts-ofspeech. So in this transposition, the noun signs get. Representational themes are outlined, which create relative meaning. The musicological metaphor of the instrumental comparative prepositional phrase: categorization and mapping of cognitive domains. It works from culturally programed ways of knowing reality. It is a materialisation of a multileveled semantics of artistic text. The results contribute to our understanding of the semantic validity of the instrumental. They delineate their research frontiers in cognitive language.