Syntax

Syntactic actants

Actant 1: whose eyelashes they are
(a) Genitive
(b) Possessive
Ћн увќдел слёзы на реснќцах ребёнка. He noticed tears on the child's lashes.
Её и без тогћ тёмные реснќцы бІли сќльно накрђшены. Her naturally dark eyelashes were heavily made up.
NB When the word реснќцы functions as a subject and does not have a descriptive modifier (like тёмные, above), the construction реснќцы у + Genitive is often preferred to (a) and (b), above:
Реснќцы у неё бІли сќльно накрђшены. Her eyelashes were heavily made up.

Restrictive modifiers

NB Unlike many other body parts that come in pairs, the word реснќца cannot be modified by лљвый and прђвый. Nor can one use the phrases реснќцы лљвого/прђвого глђза or реснќцы вљрхних/нќжних вљк. These phrases are used instead:
(a) adjectival modifier (but not лљвый/прђвый)
(b) prepositional phrase: на + Adj + Locative of глђз or Prepositional of вљко/вљки
вљрхние/нќжние реснќцы upper/lower lashes
реснќцы на лљвом/прђвом глазџ the lashes on the left/right eye
реснќцы на вљрхних/нќжних вљках the lashes on the upper/lower lids
вљрхние реснќцы на лљвом глазџ the upper lashes on the left eye
Реснќцы на нќжних вљках рљже, чљм на вљрхних. The lashes on the lower lids are sparser than on the upper ones.