ALGORITHMIC MODELS AS A PRINCIPLE OF THE LANGUAGE DESCRIPTION AND THE SPEECH FORMATION


2019. № 4 (22), 38-51

 Saint Petersburg State University

Abstract:

 

Language is part of a person's inner life: its study has traditionally taken place in isolation from the natural sciences, which describe the laws of the structure and development of the outer world. However, language also has a material form that should be subject to the same rules, contain within itself event dynamics, exist on the basis of cyclical algorithms, and perform certain tasks.

The algorithmic principle of structural and systemic transformations is present at all levels of language as a system of decision-influencing rules, which, if identified, can help us to understand the existing laws and the nature of language processes, for example: the difference in Russian between the prepositions от and из expressing reason or cause (остановиться от страха versus из вежливости), the contrasting conjunctions а and но, the nominative or genitive case of determiners in expressions of quantity with the numbers two, three, four (три моих двоюродных брата — три мои двоюродные сестры); the requirement to use the conjunction чтобы in subordinate clauses, etc.

This paper studies factors influencing the internal development of language and objective indicators that determine the principles of compatibility of language units in speech. At present, linguistics cannot be limited to descriptive methods of research. It is necessary to move on to the search for patterns that determine the functioning of language as a system whose elements are in constant interaction not only with each other, but also with the surrounding reality.