STYLISTIC SYNTAX OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

1. The study of the texts in terms of their syntactical organisation is regarded as one of the crucial issues in stylistic analysis, though the peculiarities of syntactical arrangement are not so conspicuous as the lexical and phraseological ones.

Stylistic syntax deals with specific patterns of syntactic usage, i.e. syntactical expressive means (EM) and stylistic devices (SD). In stylistic syntax, EM are recognised by less rule-bound modelling of sentences. All the deviations from the stylistically unmarked sentence pattern (S - P - O - D) are treated as its transforms that may acquire stylistic connotations, in which cases they are regarded as EM. The transformation of the pattern in question info negative and interrogative sentences rarely leads to any stylistic changes. Other transformations might create stylistically marked sentence patterns.

According to the type of transformation of the neutral syntactical pattern, all EM in English fall info three groups:

1. EM based on the reductionof the syntactical pattern that results from the deliberate omission of some obligatory element(s) of the sentence structure. This group includes ellipsis, aposiopesis, nominative sentences, and asyndeton.

2. EM based on the redundancyof the syntactical pattern that results from the addition of some sentence elements or their deliberate repetition. To this group we refer repetition, enumeration, syntactic tautology, polysyndeton, emphatic constructions, parenthetical clauses or sentences.

3. EM based on the violationof the grammatically fixed word order within a sentence or a deliberate isolation of some parts of the sentence. Here belong stylistic inversion, syntactical split, and detachment.

The stylistic effect in syntax may be created not only due to the intrasentential relations (those between the elements of a sentence), but also due to the intersentential (i.e. the relations between several sentences) relations within paragraphs and other supraphrasal unities.

The stylistic effect in supersyntax may be achieved by the use of SD, i.e. stylistically marked means and patterns of combination of sentences within a larger context. SD may also be created due to the transposition of the syntactical meaning of a sentence in context. In this case a sentence acquires an additional meaning which is not typical of the corresponding syntactical structure.

Thus, taking into account the character of the relations between syntactical structures, possible transpositions of meanings in a context, and the means and types of connection within a sentence, we distinguish the following groups of syntactical SD:

1. SD based on the peculiar formal and semantic interaction of syntactical constructionswithin a sentential or suprasentential context: parallelism, chiasmus, anaphora, epiphora.

2. SD based on the transposition of the syntactical meaning in context:rhetorical questions.

3. SD based on the transformation of the types and means of connectionwithin or between sentences: parcellation, subordination instead of coordination, and coordination instead of subordination.