International Journal of Philology

The article analyzes discursive expressions, which contain an actualized prepositional component of the conception infinitive, and their coreference (communicative-functional equivalence) with grammatically laid out formal-elementary (simple) sentences. Based on that, the findings identify semantic-syntactic varieties of discursive expressions with the conception infinitive and analyze their communicative-pragmatic characteristics. It is substantiated that the structure of a discursive expression with the conception infinitive contains special markers, demonstrates the intersection of various intentions, their interdependence, and is seen as a grammatical category that includes the content and form planes. It is determined that in discursive expressions, (i) words of evaluative significance, (ii) particles to create the necessary modal tone and temporal clarification of predicativity, and (iii) demonstrative pronouns this, that, and such, which make the main part of the discursive expression, are used to actualize the prepositional component of the conception infinitive. It is argued that the actual articulation relates only to speech and reflects the nature of speech acts, which in oral speech are distinguished by an expressive function, intonation of completion, and in written speech, by a period, question mark, or exclamation mark

discourse; text; segmented constructions; discursive expression; coreference; simple sentence; infinitive; conception infinitive; preposition; actualization