Syntax in anthropocentric terms of modern linguistics

This article describes the prerequisites, stages of formation and methodological settings of anthropocentric approach to the study of language objects in the latest East Slavic linguistics. It has also described the key discursive factors that characterize the current research in the area of syntax (extralinguistic, pragmatic, cognitive, semantic, communicative, procedural and functional) and stimulate the creation of a "natural model" of language. The author formulates the assumptions for further study units of syntax in communicative-discursive paradigm.