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saxelmwifo enis swavlebis sakiTxebi:
problemebi da gamowvevebi
Issues of State Language Teaching;
Problems and Challenges
Inga Sanikidze
Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia
On Functional Alteration of “[Imitom]” (because) Correlate
in Modern Georgian
ABSTRACT
One of the important problems of the modern Georgian literary language is the formal mixing of the
subordinate adverbial clauses of cause and purpose avoiding of which actually is not provided by
normative approach to this issue.
The case is that the semantic-formal modeling of subordinate clauses of purpose and cause on the level
of the Georgian language depends mainly on the lexical form of the correlate used in the principle
clause and the junction subordinated to it ([imitom],+ [radgan] (because.. + so as// that – expresses the
construction of content of the cause; And in order …+ for// that – that of purpose) From these using of
the correlates expressing the cause (because, that is why) in the sentences of adverbial modifier of purpose
is not considered to be the literary norm of the modern literary language (L.Kvachadze).
The fact is that in complex constructions expressing the content of purpose, the syntactic border is rather
wider and the center of heaviness is concentrated on the Verb of subordinate clause, which expresses
formally the probable, so called conjunctional content of action (“I bought the pencil for the
purpose, that it draws”; or:; “I bought the pencil because it draws”). An observation of grammar structure
of the sentences shows that the initial semantic loading of correlates “[imitom” (because) //
“[amitom] (that is why) is considerably weakened and it as a lexical segment, is of neutral function,
what we would not say about its syntactic function – to be indicative word in the principle clause, on
which the contextual-grammar structure of the subordinate clause be built.
We think that the modern state of development of the Georgian language makes us to change the
approach towards the lexemes considered till present only as the cause and introduce in practical issue
of teaching the language (here : Syntax) as well that change which reflects the objective state of the
Georgian language.
Study of lexical-grammatical mechanisms of conjunctions of words within the frames of specific language,
usually clarifies each peculiarity characteristic for this or that language which is never considered as
separately taken syntactical amount so as the sentence, let it be simple or complex, is an integral lingual structure,
and its modeling has been motivated by semantic, more precisely, communicative function. Through active
application of lexical and morphological levels we receive completely new, much more complex lingual
unit and we call it otherwise a sentence. This extremely interesting logical-grammatical form of thinking considers
in itself the structural units (in this case we mean the whole structure of the sentence) and lexical organization
in which the combined order of the words is determined by the logical sequence.
The main goal of syntactic research always was the fact that of what kind of word units (lexical or grammatical)
creates the sentence, or how are they allocated in the total material of the completed idea. It is obvious
that the long-lasted tradition of the literary language and continuity of 16 century development of the
Georgian literary language has considerably increased the possibilities of the Georgian sentence – has widened
the structural limits of redistribution of the parts of the sentence and has created much more possibility
for selection of the lexical units. Consequently, study of complex sentence of the Georgian language does not
loss its actuality, though as F.Ertelishvili notes: “With studying of complex sentence not a single difficulties
are related. In the first turn it is necessary a point of view, and the points of view generally towards the object
of syntax for today as it is known are different; It is necessary to share with the relatively expedient one, précising
and while working on particular lingual material to follow the relative principles” (Ertelashvili, 1963,
p.4).
Because of the fact that “The syntax investigates the general rules worked out historically in the language
which is the basis for conjunction (unification) and receiving of the types of the sentence” (Kvachadze, 1966,
p.6) the object of research and interest is the formal (we mean a syntactical form) models of subordinate
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