SENTENCES WITH HOMOGENEOUS PARTS OF SPEECH IN THE HISTORY OF GRAMMAR

Abstract

The article discusses the homogeneity and homogeneous parts of speech, as well as approaches to the study of this phenomenon. Modern theory of homogeneous parts of speech is preceded by a long linguistic tradition. An important step in understanding the nature of homogeneity was the recognition of the special syntactic status of homogeneous parts of speech. Syntactic science has made this step due to classical linguistic theory beginning from logical postulates and including the con­temporary study of homogeneous parts in the structure of a sentence and text. In the article, it is stated that the coordination between the homogeneous elements in a sentence is a significant sign of homogeneity, its relevant feature. Homogeneity is impossible without coordination. A specific intonation of enumeration and conjunctions that connect the homogeneous parts of speech are determiners of homogeneity. The subjects that define the same predicates are always homogeneous, as well as the predicates that define the same subjects are also homogeneous. However, the impossibility of inserting a coordinating conjunction between homogeneous parts leads to a loss of homogeneity. It is noted in the article that homogeneity and coordination are different syntactic phenomena. Coordination has a broader meaning regarding its function. It functions in a sentence asyndetically or by means of conjunctions, contains homogeneity in its structure. The function of homogeneity is much narrower and can be considered as a separate part of coordination. Homogeneity is always connected with coordi­nation; but coordination can function not only among homogeneous components or elements that have the same functions, but also among multifunctional elements of different nature that can be found in the structure of a sentence. The study of homogeneity deals with grammatical, lexical and semantic, semantic and syntactic approaches. Homogeneity as a grammat­ical phenomenon is based on the functional equivalence and independence of parts of speech that is found in coordination between homogeneous parts of speech and their parallel inserting in the structure of a sentence. The homogeneity in terms of the semantic approach is interpreted as equality of semantic relations derived from the lexical meaning of coordinating words.