PRAGMATIKA VEZNIH SREDSTAVA
PRAGMATICS OF CONJUNCTS

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on conjuncts on the level of sentence and text (conjunctions and connectors). We primarily focus on the criteria on the basis of which linguistic units are categorised into the aforementioned group or groups and classified (formal grammatical and semantic/logic criteria) in grammar books. This is followed by an enquiry into the issue of whether conjuncts are adequately represented in traditional grammatical descriptions. Thus, taking into account concrete communicational situations, that is, pragmatics – functional criterion is added to the above mentioned criteria. This significantly increases the list of conjuncts: it no longer only includes those units that in the formal grammatical sense do not belong to the category of conjunctions, but also larger(complex) linguistic units – sintagms, clauses, sentences, and even parts of text.

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