PARTICIPLES AS FUNCTIONAL SPEECH UNITS (BASED ON THE MATERIAL OF WORKS OF RUSSIAN PROSE)

The purpose of the article is to identify the features of the functioning of participles in the texts of Russian fiction. The relevance of the study is caused by the interest of linguists in the specifics of the functioning of participles: in the language of fiction, their features of use still remain beyond the limits of linguistic research. This article presents a study of frequency of the use of different types of participles in the works of Russian prose writers. The linguisticphonological aspect of the functioning of participles is considered by the example of their use by writers of Russian prose.