CONJUNCTIONS AS LANGUAGE UNIVERSALS
In the light of M. Heidegger’s hermeneutic ontology, the article reveals the role of conjunctions as parts of speech in understanding the essence of a human language. In contrast to the traditional, mainly syntactic understanding of conjunctions in linguistics, it is proposed to consider them in the semantic and cognitive aspect. It is found out that conjunctions are responsible for the conceivability of “pure” relations as reality of a special kind. The authors substantiate the thesis that it is the presence of conjunctions that characterizes the specificity of a human language, its poetic, constructive force. The significance of conjunctions is revealed in semantic, syntactic, pragmatic and cognitive dimensions.