Liudmyla Shytyk SYNCRETIC COMPOUND SENTENCES IN THE LITERARY UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE

Abstract

Аbstract. Introduction. The study of the specificity of syncretic compound sentences deserves
research attention in view of the presence of debatable aspects of the typology of these syntactic units and
the diversity of their speech manifestations.
Purpose. The purpose of the article is a comprehensive analysis of syncretic compound sentences
marked by syncretism of intra-rank common category.
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Methods. In the research process, we used the method of linguistic description of language facts,
the structural method represented by the methods of structural-semantic and transformational analysis,
the method of modeling and component analysis.
Results. The article exposes some aspects of the research of syncretic compound sentences as
representants of synchronous transitivity of intra-rank common category in the literary Ukrainian.
Principles of classification of compound sentences are rethought, expediency of selection of constructions
marked by the syncretism of intra-rank common category and intra-rank multi-category within compound
sentences is justified. Factors that predetermine syncretism of compound sentences are found out: lexical
filling of predicative parts and transpositional nature of conjunctions, i. e. their capacity for transference
in another semantic-syntactic sphere. It is established, that syncretism of intra-rank common category in
the field of a compound sentence is possible due to complication of connective, comparable, adversative,
dividing, joining and gradation semantics with accompanying values. Differentiation of syncretic
compound sentences into types and subtypes is motivated, the inventory of communication means of
predicative parts is conducted. Connective-comparable, connective-adversative, connective-joining,
comparably-connective, adversatively-comparable, joining-connective, joining-adversative,
adversatively-joining, gradation-joining and gradation-dividing compound sentences are distinguished.
Originality. The originality of scientific research consists in the theoretical substantiation of the
expediency of singling out syncretic compound sentences as representatives of syncretism of intra-rank
common category and in clarifying their structural-semantic typology.
Conclusion. It is concluded that compound sentences are differentiated into proper-compound and
syncretic compound sentences, which are characterized by synchronous transitivity of common category
and multi-category. Syncretism of common category is implemented due to the complication of
connective, comparable, adversative, dividing, joining and gradation semantics with accompanying
semantic-syntactic relations. Syncretic complex sentences are differentiated into types and subtypes
according to formal and semantic indicators.