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Complex sentences with paratactic subordinate clauses

Author(s): Josef Štěpán
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Syntax
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro jazyk český
Keywords: complex sentence; paratactic subordinate clauses; coordination and apposition of subordinate clauses; repetition of hypotactic connectives

Summary/Abstract: In the frame of the formal-semantic level description of the language system,complex sentence with paratactic subordinate clauses is delimited on the complex-sentenceelement level. In this type of complex sentence, subordinate clauses of the same complex-sentenceelement role are connected by a paratactic (from the formal-semantic point of view)connective (special paratactic connectives are found in apposition). A classifikacion of complexsentences with paratactic subordinate clauses is presented as a hierarchized complex-sentencesystem. In the first phase of the classification, a given complex sentence containing three ormore clauses is classified according to the semantic-syntactic relationships (coordination,restricted coordination, determination, restricted determination, apposition). In the secondphase, in coordination (or restricted coordination) and apposition, either the hypotactic connectiveis repeated, or the individual subordinate clauses are introduced by different connectives;coordination display also ellipsis of the hypotactic connective in the second clause.In the third phase of classification, semantic relationships among the subordinate clauses(copulative, escalating, adversative, disjunctive) are identified in coordination; in the varioushypotactic connectives, their word-class role is noticed.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 47-63
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Czech