ИСТИНА

Linguistic creativity is usually associated with poetry and fiction, and therein, with lexis rather than grammar. Nevertheless, in what follows, we are going to address the specifics of grammar in the novel by K.Ishiguro “The Buried Giant” (2015), which seem to reflect some features and structures of the Old English and Middle English periods. What attracted our attention are the lexical-grammatical category of gender in the class of nouns, the category of taxis of the notional verbs, and the author’s fondness for ‘conjunction-free’ syntactic structures: the omission of conjunctions and relative pronouns, and the use of inversion to introduce condition into a sentence.