Types of relations in adnominal non-prepositional phrases in the Russian language of the 18th century (based on phrases with a dependent noun in genitive case and a possessive adjective with the suffix -ij-)

Abstract

The article considers the types of relations in adnominal nonprepositional phrases in the Russian language of the 18^th century. Nouns and corresponding adjectives with the suffix -ij-, which were found in the most ancient Old Slavonic and Old Russian monuments, were compared (B<b>ozhii, vrazhii, rabii). The databases of the National Corpus of the Russian Language were used, which allowed for the inclusion in the study a variety of contexts that had not previously been described by scientists. It determined the relevance and novelty of the research. The article identifies types of relations in non-prepositional adnominal phrases: affiliation relations, comparisons, subject and object relations, etc., while the predominance of constructions with a possessive adjective with the suffix -ij- over constructions with a dependent noun in genitive case conditioned to the Old Russian tradition is noted. As well as the correlation between the expression of subject-object relations and the type of construction is observed. So, if in combinations with a possessive adjective with the suffix -ij-, the subject relations prevail, then in constructions with a dependent noun in genitive case – prevalence is with the object relations, which continues the tradition represented in Old Russian monuments of the 16^th – 17^th centuries. At the same time, it is demonstrated that nouns in geniive case denoting persons (both singly and as part of combinations of complex syntactic structure) were actively used during the 18^th century, not only under the influence of Western European translated works (it can clearly be traced to the middle and end of the century), but also Church Slavonic texts.