The article is devoted to the analysis of syntactic idioms in the prose texts of the outstanding Ukrainian writer Bohdan Lepkyi. The study was performed within the fundamental research project "Objective and subjective linguistic-social grammar: communicative-cognitive and pragmatic-linguocomputer dimensions” (0118U003137) Vasyl Stus Donetsk National University of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine on the material of the writer's text corpus (http://corpora.donnu.edu.ua/bonito/run.cgi/corp_info?corpname=kitaeva).