Semantic and pragmatic functions of adjoining constructions and complex sentences

Abstract

The paper explores similar and distinctive features of semantic and pragmatic organization of adjoining constructions with the parts connected by the adjoining conjunctive means that are homonymous to subordinate ones compared to CSs. The semantic classes of the adjoining constructions are determined and their peculiarities are revealed. Propositional meanings, in which the informative function performed by the adjoined part is concretized, are established.