INVARIANTS OF TEMPORAL AND LOCAL ARCHITECTONICS OF GERMAN PARABLES
This paper presents a linguistic analysis of German parables aimed at defining and ordering temporal and local relations within the parables as a grammatical type of texts on the basis of the invariant attributes, which form this particular type of texts. The author considers that a parable belonging to the epic genre is close to a fable, as in its deep structure there is some "wisdom", which is determined both by the religion and the morals of a nation. A parable is characterized by lack of active development of the plot and the characteristics of characters, which is due to the fact that a parable does not depict events, but rather reports them. In this connection, the picture of temporal and local characteristics of a parable is perceived in a special way.