FUNCTIONAL PARADIGM OF NON-FINITE CLAUSES WITH A NON-FINITE WHICH IS PART OF A PREDICATIVE CONSTRUCTION (ON THE MATERIAL OF ENGLISH ONLINE NEWSPAPER ARTICLES)

The article homes in on establishing the functional paradigm of non-finite clauses Modern English. data for research has been drawn from English online newspaper articles Evening Standard, Guardian, Times. corpus comprises 254 per 976 thousand words texts under analysis. novelty this investigation lies fact that it views aspect with a as part predicative construction. Non-finite are concise means expressing thoughts and being such they can make idea get manifested shorter but more attractive way. use non-finites demands sophisticated kowledge language cognitive effort perception interpretation. This last statement may explain reason why register abounds while informal does not. As result analysis there have established functions performed by (a) infinitive secondary predicate subjective construction, objective for-to-infinitive construction absolute construction; (b) ing-clauses present / perfect participle gerund prepositional gerundial correspondingly; (c) ed-clauses past