The importance of Ya. F Gin's works for the study of poetic syntax

The article shows the main problems of poetics of grammatical categories within the framework of the concept developed by Ya.I. Gin, a vivid representative of Petrozavodsk school of poetic grammar researchers. The creative legacy of Ya.I. Gin is shown in reference to his academic ideas pertaining to the productive development of significant for modem philology studies in the field of poetic syntax and grammar of the poetic text. Although, the question of morphological categories’ poetics (genus, animate / inanimate) took the main place in the research of Ya. I. Gin, the method, developed by the scholar, is of no less significance for the following study. The method, elaborated for the analysis of lyrical communication from the viewpoint of changing personalities and the addressee’s problems, dialogical contexts, and case forms makes it possible to extrapolate this methodology into the field of poetic syntax with the aim of studying the stmcture, semantics and functional potential of syntactic constructions. The author of the article thinks that it is a very productive idea of Ya. I. Gin to include into the subject of poetic syntax both functional (following I.I. Kovtunova) and formal aspects of the study of syntactic levels of the lyrical text, namely their inter-influence and interaction: a certain type of the construction not only participates in the formation of architectonics, stmcture, grammatical semantics and the general content of the text, in the creation of techniques of semantic emphasis, and “foregrounding” (tropes and speech figures), but is also closely related to the meter, stanza and genre of poetic works, as is confirmed by the data of the recently published “Syntactic Dictionary of Russian Poetry”.