Substantive Word Formation in the Sermon on Law and Grace Written by Hilarion
The paper is devoted to the study of the system of derived words in the Sermon on Law and Grace created by the Kiev Metropolitan Hilarion in the first half of the 11th century. The main objective of the study is to show the initial language basis and principles of its use in creating virtually the f...
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| Language: | English |
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Kazan Federal University
2016-10-01
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| Series: | Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки |
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| Online Access: | https://kpfu.ru/portal/docs/F551400718/158_5_gum_5.pdf |
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| Summary: | The paper is devoted to the study of the system of derived words in the Sermon on Law and Grace created by the Kiev Metropolitan Hilarion in the first half of the 11th century. The main objective of the study is to show the initial language basis and principles of its use in creating virtually the first works of the Old Russian literature. As the genre-stylistic specificity of these works is largely revealed by the presence of a certain range of derivative suffix substantives in their language; the main purpose of this paper is to consider the system of substantive word formation in the language of Hilarion’s work. For this purpose, the methodology of synchronic analysis of the system of forms of derivative substantives has been used against the background of historical development of the major categories of Russian word formation, which allows to show the functioning of linguistic facts in a particular text along with their development in the language. Based on the fact that it is important for the language text specifics to have a certain system of word-formation types (WFT), the number of derivatives of each WFT and the word-formative semantics of derived entities, it has been found that the most productive and regular types of derivative substantives in the text of the work created by Hilarion are null suffixation derivatives with syncretic semantics, abstract nouns with the -(е)ние (-(e)nie) suffix, composites, and substantivates. The specific analysis of these derivational types has demonstrated that the language of the Sermon on Law and Grace by Hilarion is characterized by a whole number of patterns in the system of substantive derivation, which served as a model for the Old Russian clerical writers of later centuries. The Church Slavonic language was the basis of the Sermon’s language. However, it differs from the language of the liturgical books translated from Greek-Byzantine sources. The language of Hilarion’s Sermon is focused, in its spirit, on the Eastern Slavic reader and lays the foundations of the language, which was subsequently called Slavic-Russian. |
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| ISSN: | 2541-7738 2500-2171 |