The simple sentence and its catagories

THE SIMPLE SENTENCE AND ITS CATEGORIES

1. The problem of the sentence definition and its level belonging.

2. The main categories of the sentence:

a) predicativity: its role in the sentence; types of predication: primary vs.

secondary; explicit vs. implicit predication;

b) modality: its heterogeneous nature; the two types of modality: primary

(objective) and secondary (subjective); the culture- and gender-sensitive

character of modality;

c) negation and its types: complete vs. partial; grammatical vs. lexical;

explicit vs. implicit; direct vs. transferred negation; negation and the

communicative type of the sentence; the specific features of negation in

English.