The Transitional Scope of the Syntactic Connection: Between Double and Single Types (on the Material of the Ukrainian language)

Abstract

The paper deals with the describing of one of a syntactic connection’s manifestation, that has transitional nature between double and single types. The theoretical-methodological base of the research is the complex analysis of a sentence on the communicative, semantic-syntactic and formal-syntactic levels and, according to this, the qualification of the syntactic connection as the mediated by the semantic-syntactic level formal reflection of real connections between real things in the environment.
The grammatical peculiarities and the scopes of spreading of the syntactic connection, that is transitional between the double-predicative connection and the sum of the single predicative and single subordinated ones, are characterized. The author argues the syntactic connection’s transitivity of such type depends on the syncretic syntactic function of an adjective or an adverb, that take place in its realization. The causes of such syncretism are cleared up, namely: 1) adjective’s (or substantive’s as its equivalent) in the instrumental ability to transport to the predicative scope and to the adverbial scope as well; 2) the qualitative semantic adjective’s ability to transform to adverb, saving the mean of subject’s posture or look. The mechanism of the transitional syntactic connection in the constructions of structural model S1+Vf+Adj(S)5 is explained. Their semantic-grammatical differences from sentences with depictive predicates are outlined. The transitional manifestation of the syntactic connection in the constructions of structural model S1+Vf+Adv, where an adverb is a derivative of a depictive predicate, is proved.