Morphemic Repetition and its Place in Functional Sentence Perspective in English Artistic Prose.
The article is devoted to the study of morphemic repetition and inversion in English artistic prose. Either of these phenomena being a means of emphasis, they, when combined, produce a most powerful effect on the reader. In this article inverted sentences accompanied by morphemic repetition are analyzed from the point of view of the functional sentence perspective. Both root and affixal reiteration are subjected to analysis. As a result the following conclusions may be drawn. Closely connected and interrelated are such aspects as: a) the type of the recurrent morpheme (root or affix); b) the type of cohesion (chain-like or parallel); c) the communicative function of words with the reiterative morpheme (thematic or rhematic) The character of the actual division of inverted sentences and the type of cohesion largely depend on the type of morpheme reiterated. In case of root repetition the rheme of the first sentence expressed by the word with the recurrent morpheme migrates into the theme of the second utterance. More typical of root repetition is chain-like cohesion of inverted sentences. In case of affixal repetition the rheme of the preceding sentence, expressed by the word with the recurrent morpheme, does not usually change its rhematic character in the succeeding sentence. More characteristic of affixal repetition is syntactical parallelism.
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Issue: 4, 2006
Series of issue: Humanities (Philology: Indo-European and Siberian languages)
Rubric: Indo-European Languages
Pages: 71 — 77
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