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Mironenko Elena Viktorovna
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North-Caucasus Federal University
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The structural, semantic and functional properties of English conjunction “but” are discussed in the article. This conjunction is able to represent adversative relations of three types: contrary, contradictory and concessive. The conclusion about special type of relations – contrary-causal – has been made, and those constructions that represent these relations are investigated in the article