English and ukrainian syntax. Typology of the word-group and the sentence typology of the Syntactic Systems

C. Specification. This kind of syntactic process presents a way of syn tactic extension in English and Ukrainian which is achieved via a syntac tic element/part of the sentence usually modified by one or more other complementing elements of the same nature and syntactic function. Though not necessarily of another lexico-grammatical class of words. As for example:
"I'm not very tall, just average." Я не дуже висока, якраз середня.
(A. Wilson)
2. Expansion as a syntactic process is equally aimed at enlarging the content of word-groups and sentences in either of the contrasted languages. It is no less often resorted to than extension though by its nature it is a completely different syntactic process representing a co-ordinate joining of components which are syntactically equal in rank. Connected in this way and maintaining the syntactic status of componental parts of the syntactic units unchanged may be in English and Ukrainian various parts of speech functioning as expanded parts of the sentence. Expansion is usually achieved by way of addition (termed so by Почепцов 1971: 121). The formed in this way (through addition) strings of components usually function as homogeneous parts of the sentence. For example, homogeneous subjects:
The police, the fishmonger, boys Полісмени, торгівець рибою, учні, що
going to school, dozens of people йшли до школи, десятки людей маха-

286waved to him. (V.S. Pritchett) There were rumours, rumours, rumours... (Dreiser)

ли йому руками. Щодалі більше ширились чутки, чутки й чутки ...