Textual characteristics of multicomponent structures built according to sequential subordination and parallel models

Abstract

The object of the analysis is complex sentences including two or more subordinate clauses with the meaning of condition, cause, purpose, concession, which in general constitute the category of conditionality. Multicomponent sentences expressing the close interconnection of these relations represent a microtext, making it possible to study various textual characteristics. The analysis is based on the multicomponent complex sentences built according to models of sequential subordination and parallel models, and is devoted to their textual characteristics. The latter include both universal text categories inherent in any text, and optional, inherent only in certain types of text. It is shown how the main text categories such as cohesion, processuality, integrity, continuum are realized within the microtext-sentence. The interrelation of the structure of multicomponent complex sentences, their content and the communicative task of the statement is emphasized. On the example of contaminated structures with various types of connection (compositional, subordinate, asyndetic), it is shown that the combination of multiple methods and techniques constitutes tectonic means of text formation. It is confirmed that in the structural-semantic context, the main nominative and communicative units of the language system, a word and a sentence, acquire meaning increments and turn into “text words” and “text sentences”. It is concluded that multicomponent complex sentences with subordinate clauses are microtext with more or less integral meaning. The combination of various types of syntactic link, various types of inclusions, repetition, parallelism, providing a clear structural form of complex constructions, on the one hand, are means of dispersing meanings, and on the other hand, they unite separate structural and semantic components of the statement into a single whole, creating the basis of text-forming relations.