Functioning of the word combination “da vsio ravno” in modern Russian language

Abstract

The article examines the use of the word combination “da vsio ravno” by modern native speakers of Russian using examples from the Russian National Corpus. This combination includes the polyfunctional word “da”, which can act as an adversative conjunction and particle, and the polyfunctional unit “vsio ravno”. With the help of the word combination “da vsio ravno”, a contradictory argument is introduced into the statement, which refutes the circumstances and facts stated above; the problem of the impossibility or difficulty of positive influence on people is often conveyed; a “pessimistic” scenario of concessive semantics is presented. Most often, the combination connects parts of a complex sentence, can act as a separate sentence, and function at the beginning of a parcel. The rich constructive, semantic, and functional possibilities of the word combination “da vsio ravno” demonstrate the active development of morphological means of the modern Russian language, the emergence and consolidation of new derivative polyfunctional units in it.

Keywords

• function words
• polyfunctional units
• conjunction
• particle
• “da vsio ravno”