THE SEMANTICS OF INTERROGATIVE SENTENCES WITH THE QUESTION WORD ОТКУДА AND VERBS БРАТЬ / ВЗЯТЬ, БРАТЬСЯ / ВЗЯТЬСЯ

Abstract

Interrogative sentences with the question adverb откуда are frequently used both in spacial meanings and in non-spacial contexts. The expressive potential of this interrogative pronoun especially shows itself in the structures with verbs брать / взять and браться / взяться. These structures convey different meanings, such as source of information, methods of situation realization, as well as its reason. The main purpose of this study is to analyze semantic specialities of these verbs in combination with different classes of nouns in an interrogative sentence with pronoun откуда and to demonstrate the connection between meaning of nouns and meaning of the whole interrogative sentence.