Syntax Anormals in Texts of Internet Editions

Abstract

Introduction. Speech culture of journalistic texts at both national and regional levels is perhaps the most acute issue in terms of quality presentation of information-literate content. The modern reader needs not only truthful information, but also its qualified presentation. Lingual design of a large number of online publications indicates a violation of language norms at all levels: spelling, lexical, stylistic, grammatical. In view of this, the fixation and careful analysis of errors in the texts of online publications will help to improve the skills of journalists and editors to practically evaluate the text, find language flaws and eliminate them.

The purpose of the study is to scientifically describe syntactic anomalies in online media, identify the most typical of them and point out the main error-prone places.

Results. A common syntactic error in the texts of online publications is "overdoing sentences with a split predicate in the form of a verb + verb noun, where the meaning is conveyed by the noun, and the verb only indicates the action in general. Such a predicate, on the one hand, is a typical manifestation of the nominal nature of the statement, uncharacteristic of the Ukrainian language, in which the logical emphasis falls on verbs, and on the other hand - burdens the sentence with unnecessary words.

Attracts attention in media materials abuse of passive forms of verbs with the postfix -sya, together with which sometimes use a noun to denote an object in the form of a nominative case (and sometimes - a noun to denote a subject in the instrumental case), which is characteristic of Russian book styles language, but is not a typical syntactic and stylistic feature of the Ukrainian language.

A characteristic feature of three-component passive constructions with the verb of the passive state on -ся is that the logical subject, which in meaning means the actor and should be the subject, for some reason became an adjunct in the instrumental case, but instead the logical object to which the action is actually directed  and which should be an appendix, has become the subject.

At the syntactic level, errors are common in the choice of the case in control, in the coordination of sentence components in the number, in the structure of a homogeneous series, and so on. It is not always correct for journalists to use constructions that indicate an approximate number

Conclusion. Thus, a large number of anomarts in the media texts of online publications at the syntactic level leads to mismanagement, overuse of sentences with a split predicate in the form of a verb + verb noun, oversaturation of texts with passive language units, including abuse of passive forms of verbs with postfix –sya, the presence of sentences in which the figure is given by the appendix in the instrumental case, violation of coordination, incorrect construction of structures that mean an approximate number. Occasionally we come across the misuse of sentences with adverbial inflections