Особливості синтаксису в повісті «Чи я в лузі не калина була?» В. Шкурупія

Abstract

The present paper is devoted to the analysis of the novel “Was I not a viburnum in the meadow?” written by a modern Ukrainian writer Volodymyr Shkurupy. The novel was written in 1984 and was first published in 1990. The article focuses on the features of syntax in the novel under consideration. The author describes the events which took place in Ukraine after the World War ІІ. The writer builds a narrative based on the true life stories told by relatives and acquaintances. The genre of the novel involves going beyond the main time. The older characters reflect on what happened in Ukraine in 1932–1933. Their narratives are associative pictures of their experience. In the process of research analysis it was specified that the author uses the appropriate syntax to reproduce emotional tension. Phraseologisms appear as generalizations and peculiar formulas that figuratively show the dramatic life circumstances of the famine of 1946–1947 are employed. It is worth noting that one-member sentences play the most productive role. For example, definite-personal sentences (particularly presented from the first person) indicate the presence of the narrator in the circumstances, and therefore their plausibility. Indefinite-personal sentences emphasize the mass repressive measures of the authorities against the Ukrainian population. One-member sentences – definite-personal and indefinite-personal – dominate in the narratives of older characters about the Holodomor of 1932–1933. Their function is similar to that performed by these types of sentences in the pictures of the main tense. Thus, the peculiarity of the syntax in the novel Was I not a viburnum in the meadow? written by V. Shkurupy is that the author used definite-personal and indefinite-personal sentences to bring the artistic reality closer to that experienced by the Ukrainians in the Holodomor of 1932–1933 and in 1946–1947. The obtained results undoubtedly have both theoretical and practical significance. In addition, the writer's works require further scientific research.