Actualization of Subordinate Circumstantial Constructions of Adverbial Type in the Artistic Speech of Yevhen Gutsalo

The article characterizes the structural and semantic features of compound sentences with subordinate circumstantial parts of the adverbial type, which can be found in Yevhen Gutsal’s short prose. Both the semantic and syntactic relations between predicative parts, explicit connecting means are described. The functional load of the analyzed constructions in terms of artistic expression of the author’s approach is clarified. The productive use of compound sentences with adverbial circumstantial parts of spatial, temporal, methodical, quantitative and comparative semantics in the artistic speech of Yevhen Gutsalo is proved to be due to his communicative need to expand the syntactic level of time and space, quality and quantity. In general, compound sentences with proverbial subordinate clauses in the writer’s texts reflect the general tendencies in the construction and peculiarities of the functioning of these structures. The writer’s individual style of their use is manifested in the communicative need of these models to express specific semantic and syntactic relations, personal preferences for the choice of connecting means, the order of predicative parts, lexical and semantic content of structures. An important feature in the actualization of the analyzed sentences are the stylistic features of the writer’s language: lyricism, realism, colloquialism, psychologism, which requires attention to details, depiction of personal feelings and evaluation.