Publication details
Funkcionirovanije slov kategorii sostojanija v drevněrusskich pamjatnikach XII-XVII vv.
| Title in English | Function of predicatives (category of state) in Old Russian literary works from the period between 12th and 17th century |
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | The present monograph deals with the topic of predicatives, or category of state. The monograph gives a survey of how predicatives functioned in selected Old Russian literary works and how the units under examination consequently developed with regard to historical changes taking place in the development of Russian. As the primary source of material, 9 chronicles and 6 hagiographic texts were chosen, written in the period between 12th and 17th century. The examined units were also inspected from the synchronic point of view; data from the National corpus of Russian language were used for this purpose. To conduct a comparative analysis, we turned our attention to language phenomena from other Slavic languages, especially from Czech. A complex analysis of the excerpted material assumed research in several aspects: lexical, morphological and syntactic. The lexical aspect deals with the examined units from the lexical perspective. Above all, there is classification of semantic nuances of the generally categorial meaning of state. Attention is paid also to the systemic relations of lexical units falling under the class of predicatives. Morphemic analysis depicts which word-forming types and models are characteristic of predicatives and which derivational attributes are typical of these units. In a morphological analysis, the author investigated which grammatical categories are present in the class of the words under examination. The syntactic analysis is focused on several issues of predicatives such as the issue of syntagmatic relations typical of predicatives, the semantic classification of one-member sentences in which predicatives occur (e.g. description of surroundings, expressing evaluation of state), the analysis of constructions with predicatives from the communicative perspective and the analysis of syntactic properties that are evident in these words in a polypredicative sentence. |