USAGE OF VERBAL NOUN CONSTRUCTIONS IN THE OFFICIAL-BUSINESS STYLE OF THE UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The article deals with considering verbal noun constructions, which are widely used in the texts of the official business style of the modern Ukrainian literary language. Being the equivalent of a simple verb that already exists in the language or is potentially possible, stable verb conjugations become their synonyms, but they differ in stylistic, semantic and grammatical terms. From the stylistic point of view, verbal noun constructions are typical representatives of the official business style. It is considered that verbal-to-speech combinations and corresponding synonymous verbs are very close in value, but do not become full of semantic equivalents. Verbally-word phrases differ from the word with subtle spheres of meaning. It has been noted that the verbal noun analytical construction is a phenomenon of syntactic, not morphological level. One of the main grammatical features of the verbal noun construction is that the representation of the process by a noun enables one to pass the characteristic of action using the adjective. In the study it has been found out that attention should be paid not only to the verbal noun as an expression of the value of procedurality, but to the entire compound as a whole since its value is realized in a non-segregated fashion. The delicacy of components of the verbal noun construction and their correlation with the lexical units of the vocabulary of the language has been confirmed by the fact that these constructions have clarifications related to the entire verbally-written communication. It has been emphasized that the excessive use of such compounds in the informal sphere becomes a sign of a low linguistic culture. The conclusions state that their priority use in official-business texts is associated with greater information accuracy, broader expressiveness than a simple verb. The main feature of the verbal noun construction is that the semantic center in them is concentrated in the grammatically dependent component. The lessening of lexical meaning and the execution of grammatical functions as one of the components of the phrase becomes the basis for the qualification of verbal-nominal constructions as syntactical analytical units of official-business style.