Open AccessIDENTIFICATION AND DIFFERENTIATION FUNCTIONS OF PRONOUNS IN THE TEXT
Author(s) -
Тетяна Матвійчук,
Iryna Zhytar
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
molodij včenij
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2313-2167
pISSN - 2304-5809
DOI - 10.32839/2304-5809/2020-85.1-14
Subject(s) - pronoun , predicative expression , antecedent (behavioral psychology) , object pronoun , linguistics , subject pronoun , sentence , personal pronoun , adjective , nominative case , thematic structure , reflexive pronoun , subject (documents) , determiner , part of speech , psychology , cohesion (chemistry) , noun , computer science , verb , philosophy , developmental psychology , chemistry , organic chemistry , library science
Given that the pronoun is one of the complex linguistic phenomena and many issues related to it have not been finally resolved, attention paid to this category of words is perceived as a natural phenomenon. The functioning of such semantically and grammatically specific words, which are pronouns as a means of expression of textual categories is of particular note. The article researches the usage of pronouns for text cohesion when the pairs of words in anaphoric structures are constructions with adjectival indicative pronouns. The paper outlines that the identifiers refer the name to the same subject of speech, expressing the meaning of the defined subject to the listener. Differentiators refer the known name to other subjects of the certain type emphasizing the fact that the listener doesn’t know the subject. The article analyses typical substantive components in the pair structure, and describes cases of ellipsing the nominative unit of the correlate structure. Using both substantive and adjective demonstratives in one context which function as correlates or parts of the corresponding correlative structures, increases the difference of their relations with the antecedent, and the structures of the separate correlate can consist of other words of pronoun semantics. The authors analysed absolutely opposite cases when the antecedent, which is expressed by a predicative unit, can extend either to the predicative part of the next complex sentence, in which there is a pronoun correlate, or the correlate functions as the antecedent in the same sentence, and then is duplicated in the next. It was found that the nature of the function is determined by the distribution of the unit, and the difference in the ways of performing the anaphoric function by pronouns of different categories can be demonstrated by a common context: the personal pronoun demonstrates self-sufficiency as a correlate. There are cases when the indicative adjective pronoun is not used and the coherence of the text becomes much weaker, as the generally accepted stereotype of perception is destroyed. The functions of adjectival demonstrations can be performed by: 3 person pronouns, promoted adjectives and verb adjectives.