FUNCTIONING OF MULTICOMPONENT CONTRACTED PREDICATES IN ‘A QUESTION OF TRUST’ BY PENNY VINCENZI

Yuriy Dzyadyk

doi:10.23856/3802

Yuriy Dzyadyk University of Ghana http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9639-1020

Keywords: syntaxeme, coordination, postmodernism, parallelism, indicator

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to find out how contracted predicates function in the novel ‘A Question of Trust’ by Penny Vincenzi. A series of predicates help the author to make characterization rich, endow characters with love, desire for life when they make crucial decisions in order to overcome conflicts. The article deals with a topical and scientifically reasonable theme related to the Syntax of the English Fiction written by a woman (Women’s Writing) of the early 21st century. The topicality of the paper is stipulated by the syntactic approach to the disclosure of the structural, semantic and functional mechanisms of the organization of sentences with contracted predicates in the language and text of the English Postmodern Fiction. Descriptive, contextual, syntagmatic and paradigmatic analyses of text fragments were used to describe syntactic models. A special attention is paid to the coordination which connects predicates with other sentence parts and strengthens inner connection among contracted parts in verbal/nominal series. Equality of semantic and syntactic functions of predicates goes along with the similarity of content of semantic groups formed by means of both predicates and secondary parts of a sentence, as well as with morphological parallelism, which is expressed in the cases of repetition of auxiliary verbs in the analytical forms of verbal predicates.

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