LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL MODELS OF NADIYKA GERBISH’S EPITHET CONSTRUCTIONS

Abstract

The works of Nadiyka Gerbish, a young Ukrainian writer, have already gained recognition, but have little been studied. The article reveals the specifics of this author’s epithet constructions, in particular their lexical and grammatical models in the artistic discourse of short stories in the collection “Warm stories for coffee”. The article is based on a broad view of epithets considered not only as artistic definitions-adjectives that serve to describe objects (O. Veselovskyi, V. Zhyrmunskyi, V. Moskvin, etc.), but also as circumstances that “figuratively depict the action or the phenomenon or express an emotional attitude to them” (L. Matsko, and I. Arnold, L. Bulakhovskyi, O. Ponomariv, O. Selivanova, etc.).
It is noted that in the writer’s artistic discourse the epithet-adjective is not the only model of expression, as the short stories of the collection contain epithets denoted by adverbs, nouns, noun-prepositional constructions, adjective and participial clauses. The study pay special attention to the epithets of the substantive nature known as occasional as they perform the function of attribute expressed by noun, as well as to constructions represented by nouns in genitive or instrumental case that function as uncoordinated attributes.
The author often uses cross-cutting epithets (repeated many times in the same context), chains of epithet constructions (when one object is marked by two, three or more epithets that reinforce each other). It is stated that the writer applies permanent and free, common and the author’s epithets. The quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the writer’s epithet constructions allow to state that the epithet is one of the dominants of Nadiyka Gerbish’s idiostyle.