GRADATIONAL COMPOUND SENTENCES IN THE UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE: STRUCTURE AND SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIATION

Kateryna Horodenska
Dr. Sci.(Philol.), Professor, Head of the Department of Grammar and Scientific Terminology, Institute of the Ukrainian Language of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
4 Hrushevskyi St., Kyiv 01001, Ukraine
Е-mail: ukr.grammar@meta.ua

GRADATIONAL COMPOUND SENTENCES IN THE UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE: STRUCTURE AND SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIATION

Heading: Researches
Language: Ukrainian

Abstract: The paper focuses on the main stages of the concept «gradational compound sentences» formation in modern linguistics, characterizes the status of gradational sentences, their place in the system of complex sentences of the Ukrainian literary language, gives ground for their identification as certain type of compound sentence of closed structure.

The means of explication of the gradation semantic-syntactic relations between clauses of compound sentence are determined, the role of conjugations and lexical meanings of words in the creation of the proper-gradation and gradation-joining relation is determined. On the basis of the research the compound sentences with different degrees of partial asemanticity of the gradational conjunctions are characterized.

The present study develops typology of gradational compound sentences which is based on the nature of the semantic connection between their predicative parts in terms of the actual gradation and gradation-attachment relations and the means of their expression. Gradual compound sentence with pairs of proper-gradational conjugations, in which the second clause of sentence is semantically more significant than the first, is proved to be the core semantic-syntactical and formal-grammatical type. Peripheral to it are two other types of gradation compound sentences with pairs of proper-gradational conjunctions, in which the first arbitrary clause is semantically more significant than the second.

Gradational compound sentences with one gradation-joining conjunction are qualified as sentences of syncretic semantic-syntactic nature, since they simultaneously convey the gradational and connecting semantic-syntactic relation between the second, connected, and the first, basic, independent in syntactic structure and meaning clause; in addition the lexical-semantic filling of the second clause contributes not only to the addition but also to the strengthening of the content of the first one.

Keywords: gradational compound sentences, gradational semantic-syntactic relation, proper-gradational conjugations, lexical meaning of word, semantic-syntactic and formal-syntactic type.

 

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