DISTINGUISHING MONOPREDICATIVE POLYPROPOSITIONAL SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES IN UKRAINIAN AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES
DISTINGUISHING MONOPREDICATIVE POLYPROPOSITIONAL SYNTACTIC STRUCTURES IN UKRAINIAN AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES

Summary/Abstract: Distinguishing a simple complicated sentence as a monopredicative and polypropositional structure is one of the vital question of the present-day Ukrainian linguistics. The objective of the article is to analyze monopredicative polypropositional syntactic structure in Ukrainian and English languages and to describe elements which complicate mentioned structures at the semanticsyntactic level. The article presents comparative analysis of monopredicative polypropositional structures in Ukrainian and English languages. The semantic-syntactic relations of the simple sentence that expresses two and more propositions are examined. The elements that complicate monopredicative structures at the semantic-syntactic level are distinguished and analyzed. The performed analysis of scientific sources in syntax of Ukrainian and English languages let us make the conclusions. Monopredicative structures (sentences) can express more than one thought (proposition). Such structures occupy the intermediary position between the simple and composite sentences: one subject-predicate basis is a common feature with a simple sentence (clause) and expression of two and more propositions is a common feature with a composite sentence. In Ukrainian language such structures are defined as simple complicated sentences, in English language – as semi-composite sentences or composite sentences with non-finite subordinate clause.

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