Time in the old Russian and old Belarusian judicial 15th - century texts
https://doi.org/10.26907/2782-4756-2024-77-3-61-67
Abstract
The article analyzes linguistic means by which temporal characteristics are represented in Old Russian and Old Belarusian 15th-century court documents. The purpose of the work is to characterize the verbalization features of temporal characteristics in the 15th-century court verdicts, created in various Russian territories and in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. To achieve this goal, the following tasks have been solved in the work: 1) the means of representing calendar and descriptive time in the 15th-century judicial texts have been characterized; 2) the similarities and differences in the use of various verbalization means of time characteristics in Old Russian and Old Belarusian texts have been revealed. The relevance of the work is determined by the fact that a comparative study of judicial texts can clarify the development features of business writing in two closely related East Slavic languages. The descriptive and comparative methods are used in the work.
We have established that the similarity of the considered texts in the use of linguistic means, characterizing time, is manifested in the presence of identical constructions denoting the date and the use of such adverbs as потом (later), ныне (now), the adjectives давний (long-ago), извечный (eternal), the nouns год (year), лето (summer), день (day), the adverbial participial constructions отходя сего (leaving this) / того света (of that world) and verbs in the past tense. Local differences are determined by the use of different lexemes denoting the terms of judicial actions and court sessions, the mandatory indication of the document compilation date in Old Belarusian texts and its optional nature in Old Russian texts, and the presence of time-rich segments in Old Belarusian texts.
About the Authors
O. Klimkovich
Vitebsk State University named after P. M. Masherov
Belarus
Belarus
Klimkovich Olga Aleksandrovna, Ph.D. in Philology, Associate Professor
33 Moskovskiy Avenue, Vitebsk, 210038, Belarus
A. Nemyka
Kuban State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Nemyka Anna Anatol’evna, Doctor of Philology. Associate Professor
149 Stavropolskaya Str., Krasnodar, 350040, Russian Federation
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Klimkovich O., Nemyka A. Time in the old Russian and old Belarusian judicial 15th - century texts. Philology and Culture. 2024;(3):61-67. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.26907/2782-4756-2024-77-3-61-67
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