A Description of Communicative Textual Functions of Compound Continuous Sentences in the German Language
The author analyzes compound continuous sentences with regard to their role in the text formation process, revealing that the aforementioned type of sentences possess a system-forming function in denoting meanings like the characteristics of the state of affairs, the addresser's spatiotemporal position, the analysis of the addressee's communicative intentions, the positional determination of self-organization process in textual syntactic constructions. Additionally, the author specifies the types of derivational symmetry/asymmetry of the sentences in question as the basic text-forming scenarios.