Kobchenko N. Double and transient phenomena in syntactic connections system of the modern Ukrainian language

The thesis is the first profound study of double syntactic connections and their transient manifestations in the Ukrainian linguistics. The study is based on a new approach to qualification of syntactic connection, which is interpreted as a formal expression of semantic relations between linguistic signs of extralinguistic world concepts. Realization of syntactic connections is considered not between word forms, but between syntaxemes’ positions in the structural scheme of a sentence. The analysis of the formal grammatical sentence level is consistently conducted regarding its semantic and syntactic as well as communicative organization. The typological features of the double syntactic connections are clarified; the criteria of their distinction from the sum of two single syntactic connections and from the syntactic homonyms are set; the principles of their classification are determined. The grammatical nature, modes of realization, and domains of extension of every type of double syntactic connection are cleared up. The factors predetermining the case of adjective in constructions with double predication and in constructions with double subordinate predication are elucidated in Ukrainian linguistics for the first time. On the one hand, double syntactic connections are characterized as a separate system in the Ukrainian grammatical system; on the other hand, they are inserted in the general system of syntactic connections as its subsystem. The interaction of double syntactic connections with other types of syntactic connection in making, extending, and complicating various sentences is described. The modifications of syntactic triplets caused by these types of interaction are analyzed. The double syntactic connections are a complex phenomenon, and like any complex phenomenon, they have a predisposition to splitting. Accordingly, a great attention is paid to surveying and describing the function scopes of syntactic connection with features of both single and double connections. At the same time, the development stages of the general theory of syntactic connections are outlined and the origin and development of the double-syntactic connections studies are observed.