The competitive forms of expressing the instrumental meaning in a typological perspective

The main subject of the paper is the competition of various ways to express the instrumental meaning. In this paper, the following tasks are posited: To investigate various instrumental functions on a large language sample; To create semantic maps based on the instrumental functions and different types of instrumental objects; To find out what factors are significant in the competition of ways to express the instrumental meaning. The paper consists of seven chapters. The first chapter is a theory block and contains information on the basic instrumental meanings and semantic maps. The second chapter is devoted to main and peripheral instrumental functions and different types of instrumental objects. Based on that, two semantic maps are introduced. The third chapter is devoted to the methodology of the work and contains the information on the language sample. The fourth chapter explains various types of competitions of ways to express the instrumental meanings. The fifth chapter is devoted to the grammaticalization processes and explains the connection between the grammaticalization and the competition of instrumental grams. The sixth chapter shows the results of the paper, explaining what factors are significant for different competition types. The seventh chapter is devoted to the references.