Vol. 1 No. 72 (2018): Southern Archive (philological sciences)
Ukrainian language and literature

GRADATION SENTENCES AS SEMANTIC-SYNTACTICAL VARIETY OF COMPLEX CONSTRUCTIONS

N. RULA

Published 2018-02-26

Keywords

  • compound sentence,
  • gradation,
  • formal-grammatical formation of the sentence,
  • semantic-syntactic relations,
  • semantic conjunction

Abstract

Article presents systematization of study about gradation as a language notion, refines information about the formal-grammatical, communicative and semantic-syntactic formation of gradational complex sentences. Attention is focused on the conjunction functions as the main representatives of gradational semantico-syntactic relations. In the article it has been distinguished additional semantic hues that can accompany gradation itself. They are: contrast, comparison, compensation, assignment, clarification, cause.