The mentality of people and the syntax of a language: the influence vector (based on the English and Russian impersonal constructions)

The article deals with the discussion of the issue if the ethnic mentality determines the peculiarities of the sentence’s structure or on the contrary the sentence’s structure defines the specific character of the language thinking of people. The analysis is conducted on the basis of the English and Russian impersonal constructions. There is concluded that the distinction of the language thinking of people is that people use those opportunities, which are presented them by the syntax of the native language, while formulating the idea.