Gradation as a semantic-syntactical means of sentence organization

UDC 81Β BBKΒ 81.1

Portnova T. Yu.

The author proposes that the syntactical level (as well as other levels of a language system) has some linguistic means fixing logic links between outward things. The article deals with the gradation, a semantic-syntactical figure, which causes syntactically equivalent elements to be placed by increase or decrease their semantic magnitude. The analysis of factual material taken from literary works of German-speaking authors proves that the word order has a logic-semantic aspect.Β 

Key words: gradation, ranking, word order, anthropological linguistics, logic of syntax

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