Syntactic Function of the Word VPROCHEM

Abstract

The article covers the peculiarities of functioning of the word vprochem ‘however’ in the syntactic aspect. The characteristics of this linguistic unit in the linguistic research are analyzed. It is noted that the word vprochem is problematic in terms of identifying its functions as a syntactic unit. The relevance of the work is determined by the lack of description of the word vprochem in the research literature, and linguists’ attention to linguistic units located at the junction of full and functional parts of speech. The novelty of the study is seen in the fact that the characteristic of the most typical uses of the word vprochem is considered in free use (at the beginning and middle of a sentence), in combination with conjunctions, as well as in the various syntactic structures of a simple sentence. The use of the word vprochem in classical and modern publicistic and artistic texts is considered. The quantitative method is used to analyze the use of vprochem in the Russian language in the texts included in the national corpus. The authors comes to the conclusion that the analysis of the word vprochem reveals its rich potential for inclusion in the structure of various syntactic constructions of a simple sentence.