The given article dwells on the comprehensive overview and critical analysis of prominent theoretical perspectives concerning the morphologico-functional peculiarities of English parenthetic units. The article synthesizes insights from various linguistic schools, including traditional grammar, generative grammar, functional linguistics, and discourse analysis, to explore how these units are categorized morphologically and how their diverse functions (e.g., attitudinal, evidential, connective, elaborative) are conceptualized. Through a detailed examination of recent scholarship, the given article elucidates the ongoing debates regarding their status as optional or integral components of utterance structure, their prosodic characteristics, and their impact on sentence meaning and discourse coherence. The analysis underscores the necessity of a multifaceted approach that accounts for both the formal properties and the pragmatic roles of parenthetic units to fully grasp their complex linguistic behavior.
Bahodurjon Ashrapov (Tue,) studied this question.