The article brings to one of the actual problems of modern syntax – obligatory and optional attributives as correlative prepositional-substantive with indefinite-time duration semantics temporatives components. The aim of the investigation is to reveal peculiarities of functioning of obligatory / optional attributives as constituents of prepositional-substantive correlatives, built by primary temporal prepositions. There was pointed out that signifying components are semantic markers in prepositional-substantive temporal correlatives with indefinite time duration semantics. They are represented by semantically polyfunctional qualitative or relative adjectives, demonstrative, universal, indefinite, possessive pronoun adjectives, ordinal numerals, rarely – by nouns. There was ascertained that obligatory attributives function in prepositional-substantive temporatives with non-time semantics nouns, and in substantive time-names, which denominate universal time concepts. Possible, but non-obligatory signifying components are used with nouns that name concrete-time intervals (parts of the day, days of the week) and natural phenomena. The corollaries of the investigation are aimed at semantic syntax evolution and make a prospect to further scientific studies on the problem of functioning of obligatory / optional attributives in the structure of correlative temporatives of definite-time duration, different time semantics etc.

факультативний атрибутив

обов’язковий атрибутив

корелятив

темпоратив

субстантиви нетемпорального значення

Linguistics

Functional syntax