Substantive-adjectival form of representation of Vladimir Monomah’s descendants in Kyiv chronicle

Abstract

The article touches upon detection of nouns and adjectives that simulate the socio-ethical portraits of Vladimir Monomah’s descendants in Kyiv chronicle ХІІ century. The semantic peculiarities and stylistic functions of these lexemes have been disclosed. It is proved that there is a clear pattern in using of laudatory epithets-definitions (братолюбьць, благовhрьныи, благонравьнъ, христолюбивыи etc.) next to the names of Vladimir Monomah’s grandsons and great-grandsons.

 

Information about the author:

Hanna Mezhzherina – Dr Hab, Prof. of the Department of Philology and Natural Sciences, National Aviation University (Ukraine).

E-mail: 2802korchuk@ukr.net

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