Lecture 11 The Sentence: General. The Simple Sentence 1.
The notion of sentence. The sentence as a language unit.
2.
Structural classifications of simple sentences.
1. The notion of sentence. The sentence as a language unit Complexity of the sentence makes it difficult to work out its adequate
definition. The sentence is a central syntactic construction. It is a minimal unit of
speech communication.
The difference between the phrase and the sentence is fundamental: the
phrase is a nominative unit which fulfils the function of polynomination denoting a
complex referent (phenomenon of reality) analyzable into its component elements
together with various relations between them; the sentence is a unit of predication
which, naming a certain situational event, shows the relation of the denoted event
towards reality.
