THE PREDICATE IN BIINFINITIVE SENTENCES

Abstract

The content of the article is a description of the analytical structure of the predicate in two-infinitive sentences. These are sentences that look like To doubt is to search. The semantic structure of such sentences is identification relations. The expression of identification is based on the syntactic construction of an identity. Biinfinitive sentences in the Russian syntax are defined to a structural-semantic variety of infinitive-applicable sentences. Biifinitive sentences together with the binomial sentences group also form a group of binary sentences. The author believes that the predication of biifinitive sentences can be defined as a composite infinitive predicate. Biinfinitive sentences are organized by the method of analytics. The relevance of the designated theme is due to its relevance to a number of “controversial” issues of modern Russian syntax: the problem of subject, compound predicate, predicativity and potential polypredicativity, the distinction between single and double sentences, punctuation design infinitive-suitable proposals, etc.