FUNCTIONS OF THE CONSTRCTION ДЕЛО В N6

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of functioning of the Russian construction дело в N6 (the matter is in N6 ) in the position of an independent sentence, which is considered as a semantic and functional analogue of the textual connector “the matter is that”, which has a causal meaning. A brief review of the works devoted to the study of the named connector, as well as to the issues of text coherence, retrospection and prospection, is given. The purpose of the study is to establish the role of the construction дело в N6 with a causal meaning in the design of coherence in the text. The paper analyzes verbal and non-verbal variants of the construction, as well as its variety with the word “all” and presents the frequency of each variant in The National Corpus of the Russian language. Based on the analysis of examples of the RNC, it can be concluded that the constant component дело of the analyzed model performs a retrospective function in the text, and the lexically free component that takes a position at a preposition has both retrospective and prospective functions.