Molkov, G. A. MARINE TERMS IN UNPUBLISHED WORKS OF ADMIRAL S. I. MORDVINOV MID 18TH CENTURY. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2023;45(6):101–107. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2023.946


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MARINE TERMS IN UNPUBLISHED WORKS OF ADMIRAL S. I. MORDVINOV MID 18TH CENTURY

Molkov
G. A. 		Saint Petersburg Institute of History, Russian Academy of Sciences
Keywords:
marine terminology
ship evolutions
Russian language of the 18th century
historical lexicology
gallicisms		 Summary: The unpublished works of S. I. Mordvinov have not yet come to the attention of linguists and are a new source for studying the vocabulary of the Russian language of the 18th century. Two essays by this author on maritime affairs have been preserved, written at intervals of a couple of decades – in the late 1730s and in 1764. The purpose of this study is to describe the changes that the terminological system of the sphere of ship tactics experienced in the use of one author. According to our observations, the later work of 1764 is a revised version of the work of the 1730s. Although each of the manuscripts preserved in the RASL collection has an original, non-coinciding content – some paragraphs, sections, but the main sections coincide, including in headings, sometimes with variations. A comparison of the terminology of the two treatises shows that the specific terms of ship evolution (i.e., the position of ships in formation and its changes), in contrast to the more general marine terminology of Mordvinov, are oriented towards French usage. At the same time, in his later work, the gallicization of the terminological system intensifies – at the morphological and phonetic levels. In this way, Mordvinov tries to standardize the terms in this area.



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