COMPARATIVE-TYPOLOGICAL APPROACH TO THE STATUS OF SIMPLE AND COMPLEX SENTENCES

The article touches upon the topical problems of modern linguistics related to the question of the status of linguistic units in general, and of simple and complex sentences, in particular, as signs of a nominative and communicative nature; as well as upon their structural-semantic and functional-communicative semantic features and their constituent parts such as, for example, the subject, the predicate, the object, the adverbial modifier, the introductory part and the introductory component, which are peculiarly characterized, defined and classified by the author. Proceeding from an integral approach to linguistic phenomena in modern directions of linguistics, which make up its anthropocentric paradigm, the author tries to express his attitude to a number of controversial issues faced by specialists in the field of syntax. Approaching these issues from a comparative-typological point of view, the author argues that, like any significant unit of a language, a sentence and all its types and varieties from a constructive and communicative-pragmatic points of view, should be considered as integral monolithic signs like a word. Pushing off from this general linguistic regularity, the author approaches in a new way to such parts of the sentence, which perform the syntactic function of a part of a sentence and its extenders, establishes and reveals their substantial status within the framework of sentences of such modern languages as English, which represents a type of languages of a predominantly analytical system; Uzbek representing a type of languages of a predominantly agglutinative system, and Russian demonstrating a type of languages of a predominantly inflectional system. According to the author, there is a universal law, in line with which any significant linguistic unit used in a sentence, alone or in combination with another unit, can and should function as a specific syntactic part of it, therefore, within the framework of a sentence there is not and cannot be such a member that should not have a syntactic function in it. Based on this approach to the sentence and its members, the author characterizes and classifies the members of the sentence and their extenders from the linguo-cognitive and linguo-pragmatic points of view in a new way, in contrast to the traditional approach, according to which the extenders of the sentence are its parts, and the extenders of the parts cannot be members of the sentence. The article attempts also to clarify the question of the role and functions of the subject and predicate in the constructive structure of the sentence and their relationships with other parts of the sentence. As a result, a new taxonomy of a simple sentence, depending on the ability of the subject and predicate to create their “peaks” has been worked out. It is substantiated that the correct solution of the problems raised in the article contributes to the improvement of the state of learning and teaching languages and the process of translation from one language into another.