Актуальне членування складнопідрядних речень зі значенням відповідності

Abstract

At first in the Ukrainian syntactic science, the author has attempted to clarify the features of complex sentences that have semantic and syntactic relation of compliance between their main and subordinate parts, in particular regarding communicative and syntactic level of their organization. Relevance of the problems raised is confirmed that a detailed study of complex sentences with a compliance meaning according to the terms of their actual division is necessary to identify more accurate description of syntactic structures of the specified type as units of communicative syntax. Based on the findings of domestic and foreign researchers of communicative syntax, the article proves that the theme-rhematic division of complex sentences of determinant type, which includes complex sentences of compliance, is different from the actual division of a simple sentence or other types of complex sentences. Agreeing with the views expressed in scientific investigations recently done, the researcher points out that the actual division is associated with the definition of specific correlation between its communicatively determined components: a theme that conveys information from which the speaker is repelled like from something stated and on which he makes posts, and rheme, which contains the message. The results of the analysis show that a prepositive part of compliance complex sentences, as actually less important one, always serves as a theme, and a postpositive part, as a communicative centre of a sentence-expression, always performs a rheme function. Because of the flexibility of the structure of the studied sentences, the communicative status of rheme can have both a major component (on a direct placement of components) and a subordinate one (on conditions of inversion location of predicative parts). The considered factual material shows that the actual division of compliance complex sentences can be of a binary character (one theme and one rheme), and of a multi-layered one (when there highlighted a theme and a rheme of a higher layer, and a theme and a rheme of a lower layer), depending on the speaker’s communicative goal.