FUNCTIONS OF NOMINATIVE AND INCOMPLETE SENTENCES IN A MODERN LITERARY TEXT

Abstract

The article studies peculiarities of manifestation of the pragmatic potential of nominative and incomplete sentences. The research material is based on the prose texts of Evgeny Grishkovets’s late novels “Knots” and “Letters to Andrey.” The paper analyzes features of forming connotative meanings in the semantic structure of nominative and incomplete sentences in a modern literary text. Special attention is paid to the structural analysis of different types of incomplete sentences. Single-part and incomplete sentences are used in a modern literary text to enhance the intensity, expressiveness, and focus the reader’s attention on the communicatively most important part of the utterance, to manifest the author’s intention. The novelty of the research is seen in the fact that the language of works of modern literature in this aspect has still been little studied in linguistics. The author concludes that the use of incomplete sentences that fulfill certain pragmatic tasks contributes to the greatest extent to the manifestation of the author’s subjective modality: they explicate the most significant components of the semantic structure, create a special broken intonation rhythm, the confusion of which intensifies the nuclear component, give expressivity to the artistic text, show subjective modality, and contribute to the creation of open or implicit dialogicality.