International Journal of Philology

The article highlights the history of a compound sentence research in Ukrainian linguistics in the projection onto its definitive background, immanent characteristics, classification parameters and isofunctional relations; the differential features of this syntactic unit are distinguished, its place in the scientific paradigm of a composite sentence is determined. The multi-vector nature of the interpretive spectrum of compound sentences is systematically characterized through the prism of traditional and new Ukrainian and world linguistic experience; an attempt was made to establish symmetric-asymmetric connections and relations in the complex mechanism of the multi-level organization of the sentence in general and the compound sentence in particular as its important and specific type. The research is based on the fundamental studies devoted to the complex description of the structure and semantics of compound sentences by A. P. Hryshchenko, I. R. Vykhovanets and K. H. Horodenska. The article focuses on the problem of identification (A. P. Hryshchenko, K. H. Horodenska) / opposition (I. R. Vykhovanets) of syndetic and asyndetic composite sentences, their elementary and non-elementary models, closedness / openness of the formal-grammatical structure and factors influencing the possibility of new predicative parts appearance (I. R. Vykhovanets, K. H. Horodenska). Special attention is paid to the problem of the typology of compound sentences in accordance with the semantic nature of the means of combining their predicative units: multifunctional in terms of the meanings of conjunctions (semantic, partially asemantic, asemantic), lexical meanings of the components of predicative parts, as well as combined syndetic and lexico-semantic formation and expression of semantic-syntactic relations The basic provisions of each of the compared views are distinguished and this clearly demonstrates the evolution of Ukrainian syntax in the direction of semanticization of the formal-grammatical level of a sentence and its qualification from the standpoint of multidimensionality on symmetric-asymmetric bases

composite sentence; compound sentence; asyndetic compound sentences; multi-level sentence structure; coordinating conjunctions; A. P. Hryshchenko; I. R. Vykhovanets; K. H. Horodenska