Актуелност Белићевих погледа на именицу

Abstract

Belić's interpretation of the language had, in essence, a mental note. Certain details in his approach to nouns remind us, to some extent, of the theoretical solutions relevant to generative grammar. The author of this work calls our attention to the way in which Belić used to associate a category of noun with the function of the subject in a sentence and at the same time makes a comparison with what implies the way of presenting subjective-predicative relations on the level of deep structure in the framework of Noam Chomsky’s “standard theory”. G. Lakoff's theoretical requirement to put verbs in a class with adjectives, opposite to nouns, is identical with Beliefs order of ideas. The latest development of generative grammar has brought about, in addition to everything else, a belief that category marks are of secondary importance — nouns and verbs could, in principle, generate from one and the same semantic base. A similar view on the relationship between linguistic units was held by Belić, but in contrast to generativists, from strictily glottogonal positions. Speaking about nouns as a ,,sum of features“ Belić, in fact, implicitly referred to the fact that their meaning gives way to dissociation into distinctive semantic features. Feature analysis represents today an indispensable requisite of the methodological implements of generative syntax, but such analysis does not apply only to the noun. The development of linguistic theory in the course of fifteen last years has been progressing along the lines unknown at the time of Belić. The author of this paper has illustrated some results of this development with corresponding examples.