The conjunction no in the prayers of Kirill of Turov

The article deals with the use of the conjunction no in a special type of text – original Old Russian prayers. Their author is a 12th-century writer Kirill of Turov, who left a rich legacy: narrative works, homilies and a cycle of prayers for the seven days of the week. They alternate between praise, repentance and supplication. The conjunction no is used in a single predicative unit, showing opposition between homogeneous members of the sentence; in a complex syntactic construction comparable to a compound sentence, contrasting (and simultaneously connecting) its parts; in a complex syntactic construction comparable to a compound sentence (as a correlative conjunction: ashche (i)... no); at the beginning of a syntactic construction (initial no). Kirill's prayers are characterized by the conjunction no at the beginning of the sentence; it acts as a textforming
conjunction in the prayers. The conjunction adjoins, by contrasting, a new structural part to the text (usually a supplication after repentance); it is used within one textual structure, extending repentance or supplication; it marks transition from a biblical quotation to the author's
text. The conjunction no can be superphrasal when it joins not one but several predicative units.