LINGUISTIC VIEWS OF NIKOLAJ I. GRECH IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PHILOLOGICAL TRADITION OF HIS TIME (ON THE 230TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF THE SCHOLAR)

Nikitin, O.

PII

S241377150000495-7-1

DOI

10.7868/S0000495-7-1

Publication type

Article

Status

Published

Authors

O. Nikitin

Volume/ Edition

Volume 76 / Issue 6

Pages

59-68

Abstract

The article analyzes the scholarly heritage of the largest philologist of the 19^th century Nikolaj I. Grech (1787-1867), who held significant positions in public and cultural life of Russia of that time. Now his works on linguistics are largely forgotten, even though they contain interesting details about the linguistic and biographical history of his generation, reveal hidden linguistic polemics of different schools and trends, represent their author as an original thinker, who possessed the great literary skill and surely was a Master Chronicler. Here we discuss the problems of linguistic methodology associated with training manuals (textbooks) by N.I. Grech on grammar of the Russian language, which was popular especially in the first half of the 19^th century. Written in the spirit of logical-philosophical notions about the language and time-tested by criticism, they are still interesting as facts of scholarly and scientific methodologies used in Russian public schools for teaching the native language. These works greatly influenced the subsequent tradition. The article draws attention to not-so-traditional area of professional activities of the scholar - the history of language, which was just beginning to awaken under the influence of the German comparative studies, romantic trends in literature, of interest to historical roots, folklore and traditional culture. In historical and linguistic ideas by N.I. Grech, despite their somewhat conservative tendency and immatureness, from a position of diachronic linguistics, the particular author's position is evident, supplied with unique examples and comparisons. These facts disclose the scholar as a leader in his field, able to penetrate into the unfathomed depths of language evolution. Here there are also analyzed the rare examples revealing N.I. Grech's attitude towards the borrowing of words and to the new trends in linguistic practice of his time.

Keywords

the Russian language, grammar, linguistic methodology, philology, philosophy of language, the origin of language

Date of publication

01.11.2017

Year of publication

2017

Number of purchasers

Views

1207

References

GOST	Nikitin O. LINGUISTIC VIEWS OF NIKOLAJ I. GRECH IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PHILOLOGICAL TRADITION OF HIS TIME (ON THE 230TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF THE SCHOLAR) // Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka. – 2017. – V. 76. – Issue 6 C. 59-68 .
MLA	Nikitin, O. "LINGUISTIC VIEWS OF NIKOLAJ I. GRECH IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PHILOLOGICAL TRADITION OF HIS TIME (ON THE 230TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF THE SCHOLAR)." Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka. 76.6 (2017).:59-68.
APA	Nikitin O. (2017). LINGUISTIC VIEWS OF NIKOLAJ I. GRECH IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PHILOLOGICAL TRADITION OF HIS TIME (ON THE 230TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF THE SCHOLAR). Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka. vol. 76, no. 6, pp.59-68

RAS History & PhilologyИзвестия Российской Академии наук. Серия литературы и языка Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka

LINGUISTIC VIEWS OF NIKOLAJ I. GRECH IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PHILOLOGICAL TRADITION OF HIS TIME (ON THE 230TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF THE SCHOLAR)

You can

References

Indexing

RAS History & PhilologyИзвестия Российской Академии наук. Серия литературы и языка Izvestiia Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriia literatury i iazyka

LINGUISTIC VIEWS OF NIKOLAJ I. GRECH IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PHILOLOGICAL TRADITION OF HIS TIME (ON THE 230TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BIRTH OF THE SCHOLAR)

You can

References

Indexing

Via social network