DOI: https://doi.org/10.36719/2663-4619/117/9-13
Sevinc Karimova
Baku Slavic University
PhD in Philology
https://orcid.org/0009-0003-5061-8968
sevinc.karimova.1985@mail.ru
A Communicative and Paradigmatic Approach to Parenthetical
Words and Sentences
Abstract
Contemporary researchers emphasize the category of modality as one of the most crucial elements of the communicative category and present parenthetical sentences (constructions) as the primary means of expressing it. Researchers’ interest in studying syntax from a communicative perspective is associated with giving importance to extralinguistic factors in modern language.
This direction, as in several other linguistic fields, has also started to gain relevance in the study of modality. Although the functional capacity of words and sentences may seem limited at first glance, their stylistic-functional features are quite extensive. Their properties are studied along with other components of the expanded sentence from a syntagmatic perspective and are compared and contrasted accordingly. Among these, in addition to vocatives and interjections, conjunctive constructions are frequently encountered. The study of conjunctive constructions is also significant for the classification of complex sentences.
In particular, during the teaching of asyndetically connected compound sentences and subordinate conjunctive sentences, conjunctive constructions are often highlighted, and methods of distinguishing them are noted. Parenthetical words, sentences, constructions, conjunctive constructions, and vocatives—although some are very similar or synonymous in nature and others entirely different—share the common feature that, despite not being syntactically connected to the main sentence environment, they exist within it from a semantic-formal perspective. They do not participate in the expression of the internal meaning but express an external relation to it, creating a nuance of meaning.
Keywords: parenthetical word, parenthetical sentence, communicative category, modality category, conjunctive construction