ACADEMIC JOURNAL
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ISSN 2542-1077 (Print) ISSN 1994-5973 (Online) |
Russian language. Languages of the peoples of Russia |
Reiner A. I. | Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences |
Keywords: stable prepositional combinations syntactic polyfunctionality syncretism functional homonymy his- torical phraseology historical phraseography Old Russian language |
Summary: The article deals with the syntactic properties of stable prepositional combinations – semantically and
grammatically stable reproducible constructions formed according to the model “preposition + case word form”. The
study was conducted with the material of official and everyday language of Moscow Russia, representing the initial
stage of formation of the national Russian language. The sources included historical dictionaries of various types, as
well as the Old Russian Subcorpus of the Russian National Corpus. Based on the research base of 483 units (with more
than 1500 usage contexts), 14% of syntactically polyfunctional stable prepositional combinations were identified and
classified into groups depending on their ability to perform different syntactic functions. Additionally, syncretic stable
prepositional combinations and emerging functional homonyms in the Russian language of the XVI–XVII centuries were singled out. The results of the study can be used to clarify the linguistic status of stable prepositional combinations in modern Russian studies and to describe these units in lexicographic practice. |
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