SEMANTIC FIELD OF LOCATIVES AS REPRESENTED IN RUSSIAN QUESTION-ANSWER UNITIES

The concept of the functional-semantic field is one of the principal elements of A. V. Bondarko’s theory of functional grammar. The semantic field of the locatives in Russian belongs to a class of variant forms of the monocentric functional-semantic field, which is characterized by its core heterogeneity. The relevance of studying this issue lies in figuring out their representation in the Question-Answer unities. Correspondingly, this paper aims at describing the core expression and the variant forms. Its representation in the Q-A unities would involve both the questions and the answers. The questions reveal the full form of its core expression as Откуда/Куда/Где+A+V. At the same time, the structure is subject to variants influenced by contextual factors. The process of answering reveals that the primary expressions of this semantic field are the various embodiments in the adverbial position of the locatives, and what lies in the marginal part of this semantic field is when the locative semantics is expressed through other syntactic positions other than the adverbial position. The main research method is corpus analysis, which will make the conclusions more convincing.