Category of partial induvidualization of simple sentences with semipredicative adjectival components

Abstract

The relevance of the investigation is predetermined by a general tendency of modern linguistic studies towards the problems of semantic syntax and by the attempt to elaborate a semantic theory of a sentence with regard to the central place of syntax in grammar, asymmetry of a language sign, deep categories of sensentence. Aim of investigation. The article describes the phenomen of syntactic complication of a simple sentence structure by semipredicative adjectival components (traditionally known as detached participle and verbal adverb phrases) with the inherent potential predicativeness. The following methods are used in the article: structural, semantic, distributive, transformational and functional analyses of simple sentences with adjectival components as units that are monopmonopredicative (a formally-syntactic feature), poly-situational, poly-propositional, poly-predicative, mono- / poly-subjective (semantic-syntactical features), poly-informative and are formed according to the law of language economy (a functional feature). The scientific novelty of the research results consists in the definition of SAC based on its formally-grammatical, semantic-syntactical and functional features; the determination of outer syntagmatic efficiency of the adjective in the structure of a simple complicated sentence; the establishment of basic types of realization of semantic-syntactical relations between primary and secondary propositions; the highlighting of models that underline valency potential of adjectives within the limits of a semip-semipredicative construction, and also their distribution through valen-valency-not-predefined components. Conclusions and generalizations of the research complement the grammatical description of simple and complicated sentences in the belles-lettres style of literary Ukrainian; they enrich studies about secondary predication and semip-semipredicativeness as relevant categories of simple (monopredicative) poly-propositional sentences