Doctor of philological sciences, professor of the Mordvinian languages department Mordovian state pedagogical institute named after M.E. Evseyev Saransk, Russia [email protected]
Abstract. The article describes the types of speech compositions in the prose of K.G. Abramov, notes, that they can be deployed in monologic and in dialogic (polylogical) plans. The basic units of monologic speech are the complex syntactic integer, linearly-syntactic chain, parataxis and isolated single (free) sentence, the basic unit of dialogic speech is dialogic unity. Keywords: speech, speech types, monologue, dialogue.