Bulletin of BSU. Philology
Bibliographic description:
ROLE OF LINGUISTIC INFORMATION CONTENT IN IDENTIFYING NON-EXISTENT WORDS IN THE HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE // Bulletin of BSU. Philology. - 2021. №3. . - С. 11-22.
Title:
ROLE OF LINGUISTIC INFORMATION CONTENT IN IDENTIFYING NON-EXISTENT WORDS IN THE HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE
Financing:
The research was supported by the RFBR grant “Electronic Historical Dictionary of Borrowed Vocabulary in the Russian Language of the 11th–17th Centuries: Graecisms and Polonisms”, the project No. 17-29-09113 (supervisor M. I. Chernysheva).
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The article raises the problem of reflection and preservation of non-existent words — pseudohapaxes — in the historical dictionary. In this regard, it is revealed the role of lin- guistic information content of written sources in the identification of pseudohapaxes. We have analyzed the reasons for the appearance of pseudohapaxes in written monuments, and emphasized the key ones, such as clerical errors, ignorance by scientists, publishers, lexi- cographers of individual writing features of letters, combinations of letters, kerned letters, leading to the appearance, for example, of such pseudohapaxes as ‘тачаны’ instead of ‘таганы’, ‘уйтерпя’ instead of ‘утерпя’, ‘непорочным делом’ instead of ‘ненарочным делом’ etc. Incorrect reading of cursive letters and other subjective factors are considered as a result of underestimation of the linguistic information content of the text. We pay special attention to the erroneous use of the term “informativeness” instead of “in- formational content”, admitted by language historians.
Keywords:
pseudohapaxes, linguistic informational content, manuscript, cursive letters, historical dictionary.
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