VARIANTS OF COMPLICATION OF A SIMPLE SENTENCE BY SEMI-PREDICATIVE TERMS (on the material of English-language fiction)

Abstract

This study examines the characteristic features of the functioning of separate members in the structure of a simple sentence, reveals their syntactic connections with the word being defined and the additional meaning that indicates secondary predication in a simple sentence. The material of the research was about one thousand examples, including separate members of various filling, extracted from 15 works of English and American authors, mainly of the 20th century, with a total volume of about 6000 pages. The study of factual material is carried out through the context-semantic, transformational and oppositional methods. The relevance of the research topic is based on the fact that isolated minor members were identified by A.M. Peshkovsky in 1914 and since then they have been repeatedly described in general and special studies. However, many issues related to segregation still remain unresolved. In the work, separate definitions are characterized as members that reveal the actual syntactic aspect of the so-called semi-predicativeness of a simple sentence and allow qualifying semi-predicativeness as a special way of spreading a simple sentence, and semi-predicative relations as special syntactic relations.