SCOPES OF TEXT CLIPS МАЛО ТОГО AND МАЛО ЭТОГО ‘NOT ONLY’

Abstract

The article deals with a problem of establishing the scope of textual braces мало того and мало этого in Russian. The subject of research in this article is the scope of the expressions. The relevance of the study is determined by its involvement in the study of the scope of service units that perform binding functions in the text. The purpose of this study is to identify features of the scope of the text clips мало того and мало этого. As a result of the study, the following conclusions are made. The main sphere of action of мало того and мало этого are two statements – left and right. The expansion of the scope of мало того and мало этого occurs in those cases when, after the right utterance, there is the following, directly related to the previous one. At the same time, various relationships are observed: adding information, consequence, concretization, argumentation. The novelty of the study lies in the fact that for the first time a description was created of the features of the use of text braces мало того and мало этого in particular.