Phrase and sentence premodifiers in modern english
Abstract
This paper is devoted to the study of phrase and sentence attributes, which represent a relatively new phenomenon in modern English and have not been thoroughly analysed. Their use demonstrates current trends in language development, such as the desire for economical expression and emotionally marked description of the situation. The studied complex syntactic constructions with nonstandard spelling are peculiar units of indirect nomination of a characteristic, reflecting the individual, subjective emotional perception of objects and situations. The corpus data obtained from modern English fiction reveals the ways to complicate premodifying combinations when the attributive function is performed by phrases or even sentences. In the course of the study, the main structural-semantic properties and combinatory features of the constructions under consideration are studied. The dominant type is coordinative phrase premodifiers, which realize synonymous or antonymous relations. They have various degrees of stability and can be fixed and grammatically free, expressing the author’s attitude towards the subject. The number of contexts with sentence premodifiers is significantly inferior to the number of phrase attributes. It is shown that they represent a certain analogue of the character’s direct speech and allow the author to convey the feelings of the hero more accurately and expressively, since imaginary words of a person are introduced into the description of the emotional state.
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