Reiner, A. I. SYNTACTIC POLYFUNCTIONALITY OF STABLE PREPOSITIONAL COMBINATIONS IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE OF THE XVI–XVII CENTURIES. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2025;47(5):28–35. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2025.1197


Russian language. Languages of the peoples of Russia


SYNTACTIC POLYFUNCTIONALITY OF STABLE PREPOSITIONAL COMBINATIONS IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE OF THE XVI–XVII CENTURIES

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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