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Вклад Феофана Прокоповича в грамматическую теорию
Feofan Prokopovich's contribution to grammatical theory

Author(s): Nataliya Victorovna Patroeva
Subject(s): History, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Eastern Slavic Languages
Published by: Biblioteca Ştiinţifică a Universităţii de Stat Alecu Russo
Keywords: reform of the Russian literary language; history of grammatical thought in Russia; language and style of the Petrine era; grammar; rhetoric
Summary/Abstract: The result of the analysis was the definition of the range of linguistic concepts included by Feofan Prokopovich in his "De arte poetica" "De arte rhetorica libri X": the definition of the period, the typology of periods, the types of parts into which the period is divided by pauses (columns, links) and logically (the main components: subject and predicate – and their distributors: addition, definition, enumeration, synonymy), the order of the attribute with the defined, the classification of "particles" of speech, etc. The material of the study is the treatises of Feofan Prokopovich "On the poetic art" and "On the art of rhetoric ten books", read initially as lecture courses at the Kiev-Mohyla Academy in 1706-1707.

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