The article is devoted to the analysis of the syntactic constructions with the composing conjunctions in the Homilies of the Old Russian writer of the XII century Kiril of Turov, who created the original works, continuing the Byzantine rhetorical traditions. The syntax of the works of Kiril has not been considered by the researchers before. The second part of the article is devoted to the text-forming role of the conjunctions in Homilies of Kiril. The conjunction u does not participate in the organization of microtexts of rhetorical works. It has the semantics of a high degree of generality and conveys the relations of the connection and the association, organizing the text as a whole. It is used to connect the parts of the polypredicative syntactic constructions, as well as to organize the rows of word-combinations that make up the fragments of Homilies. The such chains, sometimes very long, are characteristic of the various works of the Old Russian writer, and more often the word-combinations are connected by a non-union connection. The conjunctions a and ω are the text-forming means in separate the fragments, including the monologue. The both conjunctions can act in such a function due to the semantics of the comparison and the opposition, which implies the possibility of choice. Usually a minister with the these conjunctions consists of a different number of the complex binary constructions; the their parts are compared or opposed to each other. Thus in «The Sermon of the Blind Man» with the help of the conjunctions a the Old Russian writer builds the monologue of the elders, which acquires a the special syntactic expressiveness. To avoid monotony, Kiril interrupts the similar paired constructions with a predicative unit different in the structure or the semantics. The conjunction ω in the Homilies of Kiril can contrast not the one sentence, but the multiple predicative units connected by a non-union. The conjunctions thus refers to all predicative units at once and acts as a sphere-phrase.
I.I. Makeeva (Wed,) studied this question.