The competition of variant grammatical forms in a business text

the article is devoted to the analysis of the functioning of parallel grammatical forms in a business text, grammatical and semantic correctness and expediency of choosing certain options among others. The long-term practice of editing the texts of internal documents led the author to the need to compare the grammatical variants functioning in them with those systemic patterns in the occurrence and implementation of grammatical variation, which are noted in dictionaries and grammars. The numerical forms of abstract nouns and specific forms of two-type verbs became the subject of the analysis. The purpose of the study is to analyze the consistency in language and the functioning of grammatical variability in speech, correlation by number in the group of nouns of abstract semantics and correlation by type of two–species verbs. Materials and methods. The work uses a set of research methods, the leading of which is the system-functional method, which involves the projection of the system properties of a language unit on their implementation in speech. Grammatical variation is considered from the point of view of the conditionality of the grammatical features of the analyzed vocabulary by its lexical semantics, context conditions and individual stylistic properties of the analyzed material, which are numerical forms of abstract nouns and specific forms of bispecific verbs highlighted in business texts. Results. The semantic, grammatical and contextual patterns of the systematic and incorrect functioning of grammatical variants have been identified, which consist, in the author's opinion, in the competition of two vectors of native speakers' linguistic competence: grammatical thinking, which determines model formation even in atypical cases, and speech inertia opposed to it, which ignores the consistency of inflection in favor of incorrect use. The theoretical and practical significance of the research lies both in deepening scientific understanding of the phenomenon of grammatical variation and the specifics of its implementation in speech, grammar of nouns and verbs, and in accumulating material to clarify grammatical norms and develop recommendations for the compilation and editing of business texts.

grammatical variation, business text, numerical correlation, abstract nouns, polysemous words, specific correlation, bispecific verbs, grammatical thinking, functioning of grammatical forms