I. YAKOVLEV CHUVASH STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY BULLETIN

meaning of causality, causal relationship, undifferentiated meaning of conjunction, decomposability, upper and lower case, complex sentence, super-phrasal unit.

Потому что is one of the most commonly used Russian conjunctions with the causality meaning. The present article is devoted to this conjunction form of spelling – with the uppercase or lowercase letter, with its parts located one after another or separated by the text, with a comma before or in between the conjunction. The paper also analyzes the factors which impact this conjunction usage and form. Потому что has a lot of different formal features, among which its potential decomposability and relative mobility are the most important. It is normally used in the second part of the statement, following the main part of the sentence and indicating the result. But it also may occur at the beginning of the sentence (and start with a capital letter). This happens when the subordinate causal clause turns into an independent syntax unit, and being accompanied by surrounding sentences creates a causal super-phrasal unit. Syntaх, context and pragmatic factors are considered to be the main factors affecting потому что usage and spelling. And all these semantic and syntax modifications often lead to the modification of the whole statement meaning.