CLASSIFICATION CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DEFINITION
The article generalizes the differential signs of the traditional minor members of the sentence. The structural-semantic peculiarities of the meanings of traditional secondary members of the sentence are determined. Characterized by the classification characteristics of the definitions, the basis of which are correlations of traditional minor members of the sentence with their formal-syntactic, semantic-syntactic and communicative correspondences. The types of defi- nitions according to the formal and semantic features, means of their expression are analyzed.