Expression of Conditional Relations in the Sentences with Gerundial Constructions
The article under consideration dwells on the structural-semantic peculiarities of gerundial constructions with a circumstantial meaning of condition in modern Russian. The sentences complicated by participial constructions with a circumstantial meaning of condition are subjected to analysis. The term referred as "Gerundial Construction" designates both the latter and a single gerund. The author of the article discloses those lexical-semantic components in sentences with gerundial constructions which can be qualified as means of formation and expression of conditional communication. Conditional relations in sentences with gerund are established on the grounds of gerundial construction content with the rest part of the sentence under participation of lexical, morphological, lexical and syntactical means. In her article the author analyzes only lexico-grammatical means. Proceeding from common knowledge provision beset with structural and semantic correlation of participial phrases and subordinate clauses, selection of linguistic material was made by the way of experiment that of substitution of a subordinate clause of condition for a gerundial construction.