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INTERROGATIVE GERMAN SENTENCES WITH THE OPPOSITE MEANINGS
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The concept of enantiosemy as a semantic category of language is investigated in this article. It has long been noted by scientists that the opposite knowledge can be expressed at the level of a sentence. The article discusses some interrogative sentences with enantiosemy meaning in the German language, which have a certain inconsistency in form and content. An additional circumstance potentially predisposing the syntactic constructions to rethinking the original meaning to the opposite is the asymmetry feature of the language sign. The opposite of the values represented by the linguistic unit can be symmetrical or asymmetrical. In comparison with the narrative and motivating sentences, which equally clearly distinguish the positive and negative forms, this difference becomes irrelevant in interrogative sentences and in some cases it is essentially removed or acquires some specific meaning. In terms of enantiosemy the interrogative sentences are interesting, which as a result of rethinking acquire the ability to express affirmative or negative content. The study uses the descriptive method that relies on the observation and comparison, the method of component analysis of the semantics of a sentence and a lexeme as well as the elements of statistical calculation, experiment and the transformation method.
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