ABSTRACT NOUNS IN -NESS in LITERARY ARTISTIC DISCOURSE: BIOSEMIOTIC PERSPECTIVE

One of the important problems of word-formation is the study of derivative words in the dialectical unity of two aspects − substantial and functional. Abstract nouns in -ness act to index the world of the highest degree of complexity. The elevated status of their emergency is the problem of biosemiotics. The paper aims to demonstrate the necessity of teleologic approach (Alexander, 2009) to the study of -ness nouns. The research demonstrates the active role of semantic representation of -ness nouns in terms of their directionality and originality in unfolding the literary artistic discourse both, aesthetically (part and whole relationship), and socio-culturally to foreground the possibility of umwelt and semiosphere.