Polypredicative simile and collation constructions in the Shor language

A study of complex sentences containing comparative predicative combinations has been carried out on the base of Shor, the language of a Siberian indigenous people belonging to the Turkic group. The aim of the work is a systematic presentation of the Shor polypredicative comparative constructions in order to fill the gap. To single out complex sentences with a comparative predicative part in them from the Shor texts, to define the semantic function of the comparative part, to systematize the material in the form of patterns have been the current tasks. Structural, semantic and functional analysis served as the main research method. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the comprehensive coverage of the problem of syntactic comparativity. The Shor polypredicative comparative constructions are implemented as simile constructions and collation constructions. These ones fulfill different communicative tasks and are embodied in certain patterns. As a result of the structural and semantic classification of the stock of complex sentences in the Shor language, sentence patterns with a comparative component have been identified, the structural patterns of which form a syntactic paradigm. As for a research prespective the resulting patterns can serve as the basis for a section of the Turkic comparative syntax. The results of the study are of practical importance for the development of the Shor literary language, the systems of which are under codification. The patterns of polypredicative constructions identified in the Shor language can be included in the general fund of comparative structure patterns to represent specific language features.