Muzhnyaa Zhena and Divo Divnoe: From the History of Pleonastic Combinations in  Russian Language

The problematics of the article lies in the field of studying the linguistic phenomena of pleonasm and tautology in diachronic aspect. The unified interpretation of these notions is absent in the modern linguistic tradition. The study of linguistic redundancy is effective on the basis of the non-standardized lexical semantic system of the language of the pre-national period. The article deals with stable combinations that reveal semantic duplication in the semantic relations of their components in the Russian language of the 16th-17th centuries. In the texts of this period various types of pleonastic constructions can be distinguished: 1) tautological phraseological units consisting of single-root words; 2) proper pleonastic combinations with a semantically redundant component; 3) dissected-descriptive constructions that have a one-word synonym of the same root, including expressions with broad-valued nouns; 4) conditionally synonymous constructions, including homogeneous components that are close in meaning. The article describes the features of the structure, semantics, functioning of various pleonastic stable combinations, as well as their further fate in Russian language. Some, used with amplifying semantics as etiquette formulas, remained markers of the business language of the 16th-17th centuries, others are known in texts of different epochs, acting as a sign that the context belongs to the folklore or stylization, the third ones are actively used as phraseological units in modern language.

Keywords

pleonasm, tautology, linguistic redundancy, stable combination, historical phraseology, Russian language of the 16th–17th centuries

Acknowledgment

The study was supported by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation, project No. 23-28-00038 “The origins of Russian phraseology: a project for a differentiated historical dictionary of phraseological units of the Russian language of the 16th–17th centuries”. https://rscf.ru/project/23-28-00038/

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28.06.2023

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GOST	Generalova E. Muzhnyaa Zhena and Divo Divnoe: From the History of Pleonastic Combinations in Russian Language // Russkaya Rech’ – 2023. – Issue 3 C. 40-54 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/rusrech/s013161170026390-8-1-en (circulation date: 18.05.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S013161170026390-8
MLA	Generalova, Elena V "Muzhnyaa Zhena and Divo Divnoe: From the History of Pleonastic Combinations in Russian Language." Russkaya Rech’ 3 (2023):40-54. DOI: 10.31857/S013161170026390-8
APA	Generalova E. (2023). Muzhnyaa Zhena and Divo Divnoe: From the History of Pleonastic Combinations in Russian Language. Russkaya Rech’ (3), pp.40-54 DOI: 10.31857/S013161170026390-8

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