THE PREPOSITIONS` POSITIONING IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE DISCOURSE AND THEIR MANIPULATIVE FUNCTIONS

This research examines the positioning of prepositions in the English subordinateclauses, specifically comparing the syntactic constructions of "pied piping" and "preposition stranding". The study aims to identify the factors influencing the choice between these variants from thepoint of view of their manipulative functions through a corpus-based analysis of the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA), focusing on the preposition with across journalistic and conversational styles. The study analyzes texts from 1990 to the present across conversational andjournalistic genres. The preposition with was selected as the primary material for induction due toits high level of variability in both syntactic constructions. The research employed methods of induction, functional analysis, and contrastive analysis to process approximately 500 samples, manually selecting 100 examples of each construction for the detailed examination.