Ohiienko K. Functional sentence perspective in theoretical and applied linguistics of the XX century

The thesis is devoted to the linguistic-historiographical research of the problems of the functional sentence perspective. It shows the contribution of the linguists of the end of the XVIII cent. – the beginning of the XXI cent. into the study of functional sentence perspective taking into account the evolution of views of scientists on different aspects of this phenomenon. Special attention is paid to the terminology of the functional sentence perspective and its components, because there are a lot of synonyms, homonyms and doublets which appeared due to different approaches to the functional sentence perspective. The means of the functional sentence perspective distinguished by the scientists of the XX cent. are described in detail. The work depicts the peculiarities of the examination of the functional sentence perspective in the researches of the linguists of the end of the XVIII cent. – the beginning of the XX cent. We outlined H. Weil’s concept, which became the basis of V. Mathesius’ syntactical views, and also the further development of the problems of the functional sentence perspective in the concepts of the scientists of the XX cent. – the beginning of the XXI cent. considering the changes in the views of the researches on the essence of the functional sentence perspective. The statements of the representatives of the Prague linguistic school and of the followers of V. Mathesius are analyzed. The research is based on modern approaches to the qualification of the functional sentence perspective (semantic, syntactic, logic-grammatical, communicative, morphological).