One-part and two-part typology of interrogative sentences and their role in Ivan Dmitriev's poetry

The study is based on the material of the diverse poetic texts by Ivan Dmitriev, one of the outstanding representatives of Russian sentimentalism. Quantitatively, the studied types of sentences are presented as follows: simple two-part sentences significantly prevail, followed by (in descending order) simple one-part, expanded two-part and expanded one-part sentences. A significant part of the simple two-part sentences are incomplete and elliptical sentences, which give colloquial tone to the syntactic construction of poetic speech. Live speech intonation is also achieved by infinitive and definite personal sentences, which prevail among other types of one-part structures. The focus on the addressee is reflected in sentences with elements of address, which are the most popular expanding components. A variety of rhetorical techniques and means (inversion, lexical repetition, question-and-answer organization) intensify the expressiveness of interrogative sentences. It was revealed that the investigated interrogative sentences were characterized by typological similarities in the construction, the arrangement of sentence members, and the use of the same lexical, grammatical and syntactic units.