THE ROLE OF THE OLD RUSSIAN LANGUAGE IN THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE MORPHONOLOGY OF WORD FORMATION OF THE PROTO-SLAVIC LANGUAGE

Abstract

The main purpose of the scientific article is to consider the status of morphonology and its problems on the basis of the morphonology of the Proto-Slavic language. The goal is also set for further in-depth research of morphonology - a preliminary reconstruction of the vocabulary of the proto-language on the basis of a comparative etymological study of the vocabulary of all languages of this group. The idea is expressed that the morphonological features of the Slavic languages were already laid down in the Proto-Slavic language.

For their reconstruction, a special role is played by the data of the Old Russian language as one of the dialects of the proto-language, and the data of the Old Russian dictionary are of particular importance.

At the same time, some differences are possible in the chronological depth of reconstruction for different cases, since the early Slavic period is distinguished in the history of the Proto-Slavic language, before the tendency to the loss of closed syllables and the period after the loss of closed syllables (Late Pre-Slavic period). The tendency to the loss of closed syllables contributed to the monophthongization of diphthongs, which significantly transformed not only the phonological, but also other systems of the Proto-Slavic language, primarily its morphonology.

On the basis of the study and description of the theoretical ideas of famous linguists of the 20th and 21st centuries, such a scientific problem as the problem of studying the connection between the phonological structure of morphemes and their word-formation functions is determined. Therefore, much attention is paid to the study of the role of alternations functioning in word formation.

The urgency of the problem is that the consideration of the relationship of phonetics and grammar both in synchronicity and in diachrony is not only constantly put forward as a necessary aspect of linguistic research in theoretical works, but also becomes an indispensable part of modern descriptive, historical and comparative grammars. Special studies are devoted to the morphonology of individual languages.

The opinions of various scientists about the place of morphonology in science (part of grammar, phonology, inter-tiered level, etc.) are given. The role of N. Trubetskoy as a representative of the Prague linguistic circle in the formulation of the problem of morphonology is noted.

The article has a certain theoretical significance, since it develops problems related to the study of the historical conditionality of many phenomena in modern Slavic languages. The work is interesting for specialists in the field of Russian linguistics, students studying the history of the language and modern Slavic languages.