“Judge By” in the Context of Modalation and Prospositionalization: on Indices of Transposition

The paper explores the mechanism of functional-semantic transposition of gerund forms of verbs into input-modal units and prepositions; the degree of conformity of the gerund-modality-preposition of the “judge by&8j1; is calculated with respect to the original gerund and derivatives input-modal units and prepositions; the combinatorics and proportionality of differential signs of gerunds, input-modal words and expressions, prepositions interacting in the structure of the gerund modality-preposition are established by defining the position of the subject of modalation in the context and the contextualization.