Stepanenko, V. E. PROHIBITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN PETER THE GREAT’S PROHIBITIVE DECREES OF 1713–1715. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2026;48(1):42–47. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2026.1264


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PROHIBITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN PETER THE GREAT’S PROHIBITIVE DECREES OF 1713–1715

Stepanenko
V. E. 		Saint Petersburg State University
Keywords:
eighteenth-century business writing
Petrine era
official business text
personal decree
imperativeness
modality
prohibitive
prohibition		 Summary: The article presents a lexical and grammatical analysis of 40 syntactic structures with prohibitive seman- tics found in five decrees issued by Peter the Great, aimed at combating corruption. The relevance of the research is determined by the need to study the category of prohibitive structures of the Russian language from the perspective of historical stylistics. The ways of expressing prohibitive semantics largely depend on the genre of the text and various extralinguistic factors, in our case, on the historical period, the personality of the reformist monarch, and his actions. The hypothesis posited that the subject matter of each document determined the choice and diversity of prohibitive syntactic constructions. The selected prohibitive constructions were categorized according to a field structure, where the core, near periphery, and far periphery are marked. An attempt was made to reconstruct the causal relationship be- tween the author’s intent and the linguistic units employed. The study concludes that during a period of radical change, prohibitive constructions were actively used in Peter the Great’s decrees to reinforce the monarch’ decisions, and their variability reflected the pragmatic features of the documents. The findings expand our understanding of the evolution of modality in the Russian language and hold practical significance for the study of the history of business writing and Russian literary language as a whole.



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