Integrity of the Coordinating Construction as a System

Abstract

The integrity of the coordinating construction is created by its connection with external systems: a text, a surrounding reality, thinking, communication in so-ciety. The leading aspects of the coordinating construction are logical and commu-nicative ones. A formal aspect serves them as means of their expression and it can-not claim to the leading role. It supplies integrity with its two peculiarities: by reduction the whole variety of coordinating constructions to compound sentences and by including the construction into the text. It is necessary to consider that these two peculiarities are the result of the influence exerted by logical and communica-tive content of the coordinating construction. Described situation also takes part in creating the integrity of the coordinat-ing construction. If it were not used, there would not be material for thinking and communication. It seems that its role is settled here. Such conclusion follows from the fact that thinking and needs of communication apply to it «according to one’s opinion»: existedfacts are not called; what is not connected outwardis joined; the speaker begins to inform the facts which he or she does not know exactly. Besides, the construction calls the things which do not exist, some of them are only referred to. The last point of «diminution» of the semantic aspect is the use of the particle «only» as an equal in rights component, the role of which brings to naught in the semantic aspect.The analysis of the coordinating construction integrity registered that two language functions are equally important for it: the function of creating and form-ing thought and the communicative function. The intellectual function takes the first place, indeed. Only thanks to thinking and understanding of multiplicity and its el-ements, «diminution» of the semantic aspect is possible. In other words, there would be no coordinating constructions at all without understanding multiplicity and its elements.