Abstract

The Occurrence and Use of the Means of Sentence Condensation in Gerald Durrell’s
Work with Respect to Participle, Verbonominal and Verbless Constructions
The literary language of Gerald Durrell attracts the reader’s attention by a complex structure of sentences with enormous occurrence of non-finite cuses, as well as verbless clauses. Constructions of this type have the function of various clause elements in the superordinate clause and represent common means of sentence condensation, i.e. the formal concentra- tion of a sentence structure with the maintenance of all semantic meanings. In his novel My Family and Other Animals G. Durrell uses such structures in unusual amounts combining
their different types, and thus he achieves the effect of rich and branched sentences with a complex internal hierarchy. This article focuses on the analysis of the frequency of occurrence of such constructions, their position in superordinate clauses, their syntactic functions as well as their internal structure.

Keywords: absolute clause, adverbial, analytical language, complementation, non-finite
clause, sentence condensation, supplementive clause, verbless clause, verbonominal
construction