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Structural And Semantic Characterization Of English Asyndetic Complex Sentences

Figure 1: In these English sentences, there is a complete prediction, which is characteristic of all simple elementary sentences with a full structure. Moreover, the fact that these sentences (1), (2) and (3) are simple elementary, there is no doubt about that – in the sentence (1) they are verb-nominal forms of elementarity, and in examples (2) and (3) – these are verbal-nominal forms of elementarity: elementarity in all the sentences indicated expresses not only the subject of speech as a bearer of a name but "... and expresses the property of a bearer of a member, a real person, regardless of what word this person is designated" (Arutyunova, 1976, p. 64).

In these English sentences, there is a complete prediction, which is characteristic of all simple elementary sentences with a full structure. Moreover, the fact that these sentences (1), (2) and (3) are simple elementary, there is no doubt about that – in the sentence (1) they are verb-nominal forms of elementarity, and in examples (2) and (3) – these are verbal-nominal forms of elementarity: elementarity in all the sentences indicated expresses not only the subject of speech as a bearer of a name but "... and expresses the property of a bearer of a member, a real person, regardless of what word this person is designated" (Arutyunova, 1976, p. 64).
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