Наукова особистість Іллі Кучеренка в українській граматикології

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of the scientific contribution of Taras Shevchenko Kyiv University professor Ilya Kucherenko to the development of the grammatical theory of word combinations and sentences, the innovative principles of classification of parts of speech, the theory of cases, the syntactic status of homogeneous clauses, the function of the preposition in a syntactic combination, the syntactic nature of phraseological units, the principles of logical consistency in definition of key concepts and mechanisms of language structure. His innovative grammatical concept lies in the application of the monocriterial principle for dividing words into parts of speech. The real meaning of the word was chosen as the sole criterion. According to their real meaning, the scientist divides all the words of the language into seven classes (noun, adjective, numeral, verb, adverb, participle, conjunction) and in each of these classes he distinguishes three levels of semantics: the level of specific semantics, the level of generalized semantics and the level of generalized indicative semantics. The article analyzes the syntactic function of the preposition in the phrase. I. Kucherenko believes that the preposition does not help the noun to implement the noun semantics, but on the contrary, it requires the noun to specify the generalized-indicative level of its semantics and is combined with the noun dependent on it by the grammatical control link. The grammarian considers stable (phraseological) compounds to be not lexical, but syntactic units, since the words in them are combined in the same way as in free word combinations. The article also examines a number of other syntactic phenomena (monosyllabic sentences, homogeneous clauses, vocative), which I. Kucherenko explains using strictly logical methods of analysis. The grammatical concept of Ilya Kucherenko is analyzed in comparison with the views of other scientists of the 60s–90s of the 20th century.