Abstract: The subject of the study is a conceptual metaphor in the English-language media text. The current vocabulary associated with coronavirus infection is taken as an analysis. The cognitive paradigm of language research is based on the general methodological principle of cognitive linguistics: to draw conclusions about the structures of consciousness from the facts of language. The article examines certain images in relation to the description of COVID-19 in the modern English-language media text. Special attention is paid to the selection of ontological, orientation and structural metaphors, where the target sphere is SARS COV-2. Metaphorical expressions are analyzed, which are recognized as an important tool for the study of the conceptual sphere of a person. The main conclusions of the study are the fact that the COVID in the English text is considered as an ENTITY, an ANIMAL and the SEA. Highlighting the conceptual metaphors COVID-19 IS A SUBSTANCE, COVID-19 IS AN ANIMAL, COVID-19 IS A SEA, we came to the conclusion that the British consider coronavirus infection as something tangible, dangerous and endless.Different metaphors highlight different sides of the same phenomenon, and the speaker/writer always chooses between them, guided by current communicative goals. Each metaphor inevitably emphasizes, or highlights, some aspects of a particular concept, and obscures others.

Abstract: The purpose of the study is to analyze the active verb cut in English. The article defines the models forming the synparadigma of the active verb cut, describes the semantic features of the verb, analyzes the verb cut from the point of view of its morphological categories. The author conducts a theoretical analysis of the concept of "syntactic paradigm", its differences from the morphological paradigm, and also describes various interpretations of the concept of actionality, which is important in the analysis of the syntactic paradigm of the active verb. There are a large number of points of view about what range of phenomena the concept of synparadigma covers and what is the composition of the categories significant for it. The article presents the theories of the synparadigma of D.Worth, P. Adamts. The author comes to the conclusion that the synparadigma of the active verb cut consists of 8 models: VN, VNprpN, LinkVed, Voneself, VO, VD, VNV, VNprpG. The highest frequency indicators are characterized by the VN model. An analysis of the active verb cut from the point of view of its characteristic species-specific, collateral categories and mood categories shows that the most commonly used form of the verb cut in the English-language media text is Present Indefinite and Present Perfect. Narration in the present tense provides a very strong presence effect, causes a feeling that events are happening here and now. The active verb is mainly used in the actual voice. Due to the lexical meaning, the verb cut is often used in the passive voice. The analysis of the verb along the line of the mood category revealed a large number of sentences in the indicative mood.

Abstract: The subject of this research is the function of infinitive forms (participle and adverbial participle) in polypredicative constructions in the Kumyk language. Special attention is given to concept of “polypredicative construction”. Predicative unit is an alternative to a simple sentence as part of the unit of higher level. Kumyk language indicates a strict sequence of parts: the dependent predicative unit is in preposition to the main predicative unit. It is noted that the center of polypredicative construction is the connectivity indicator – analytical (a functional word) or synthetic (a morpheme as part of a dependent verb form). Therefore, since the dependent verb form in the Kumyk language takes end position as part of dependent predicative unit, the synthetic connectivity indicator is placed between the main predicative unit and the dependent predicative unit. The novelty of this consists in compiling a list of infinitive forms (adverbial participial and participial) used in polypredicative constructions in dependent predicative unit in the Kumyk language. Polypredicative sentence marks eight adverbial participial forms and four participial forms. All types of participles, excluding present participle are used as an independent verb form – in simple sentence and in the main part of polypredicative construction.