The Phenomenon of Predicativity and Its Study in Linguistics

The linguistic interpretation of the phenomenon of predicativity has long remained a problematic issue in world linguistics and continues to do so even today. The main purpose of this study is to identify the foundations and causes of these problems. It should be noted that in the linguistics of the former Soviet Union, this issue was considered settled after the opinions and views expressed by Academician V.V. Vinogradov. Nevertheless, discussion of the problem did not disappear from the attention of linguists. Therefore, one of the main tasks today is to define the necessity of reconsidering its many aspects on the basis of factual linguistic material and extralinguistic factors.
Indeed, the demand for a serious interpretation of the problem of predicativity is fully justified. Up to the present stage of the development of linguistics, the real relationships between predicativity and predication, predicativity and verb tense, predicativity and modality, as well as predicativity and linguistic and speech units (word, phrase, sentence) still remain in need of clarification. The description of this problem is of great importance for world linguistics, including Uzbek linguistics. To solve it, we have chosen to study existing theoretical views using descriptive, comparative, and transformational methods.
It should be especially emphasized that the problem of predicativity has been studied more thoroughly in Russian linguistics by scholars such as A.A. Potebnya, J.A. Baudouin de Courtenay, A.A. Shakhmatov, V.V. Vinogradov, M.I. SteblinKamensky, A.I. Smirnitsky, Y.S. Stepanov, A.G. Rudnev, A.N. Gvozdev, Y.I. Shutova, V.B. Kasevich, and others. However, despite this, it has been found that the interpretation of the issue was often one-sided. As a result, predicativity was exaggerated as being a phenomenon characteristic only of the sentence and as having no relation to other units of the language.
The main conclusion is that this had a significant influence on the linguistics of the peoples of the national republics within the former Soviet Union, as a result of which many issues in this field remained in need of explanation. Therefore, at the present stage of the development of linguistic science, the interpretation of the phenomenon of predicativity has once again begun to occupy a place on the agenda as a linguistic problem.