THE DASH IN THE POETIC LANGUAGE OF OKSANA ZABUZHKO: NOTES ON SELECTED SYNTACTIC FEATURES OF ITS USE

Halyna KUTNIA,
Candidate of Philological Sciences (Ph.D.), Docent of the Ukrainian Language Department named after Professor Ivan Kovalyk,
Ivan Franko National University of Lviv;
1 Universytetska St., 79001 Lviv, Ukraine;
e-mail: kutnia@ukr.net
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6628-411X

Heading: “This text is not mine – it is, like in a slow dance, A change of figures, rules, and norms…” (THE LANGUAGE OF ARTISTIC CREATIVITY OF OKSANA ZABUZHKO)
Language: Ukrainian

Abstract
The article is devoted to the analysis of the dash in the poetic language of Oksana Zabuzhko based on specific syntactic indicators. It has been established that this is one of the most frequent punctuation marks in poetic texts, which predominantly has an individually authorial character. It reflects various authorial nonverbal intentions, particularly in emotional and communicative-stylistic aspects. Poetic lines are often permeated with dashes throughout; such cases are inappropriate to comment on in a formal-syntactic dimension, as they do not relate to the structural-grammatical principle of using this punctuation mark. However, in many sentences the authorial dash can be viewed through the prism of syntactic indicators, which demonstrates the synergy of syntax and punctuation. This concerns O. Zabuzhko’s use of the dash between subjects and predicates, between homogeneous parts of the sentence, for marking parenthetical units, for isolating semi-predicative components, for separating predicative parts of various complex sentences, and so on. The article focuses on the main semantic-syntactic relations that underlie the use of the authorial dash: comparative, contrastive-oppositional, and consequential relations. Such relations are implemented mainly in syntactic units that, from the perspective of current punctuation norms, do not traditionally require a dash.
Key words: poetic language, authorial punctuation, dash, syntax, semantic-syntactic relations, Oksana Zabuzhko.

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