Open AccessAdmiral Shishkov, General Akhverdov, Major Shchulepnikov and «Russian Grammar» by J. S. Vater
Author(s) -
Oleg V. Lukin
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
verhnevolžskij filologičeskij vestnik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2499-9679
DOI - 10.20323/2499-9679-2021-2-25-86-91
Subject(s) - slavic languages , linguistics , grammar , german , ukrainian , russian culture , history , narrative , historiography , traditional grammar , literature , philosophy , art , archaeology
The article is devoted to the history of writing «Russian Grammar» by the famous German linguist J. S. Vater. It analyzes the peculiarities of his scientific activity and the prerequisites for the appearance of his Russian Grammar from the standpoint of narrative linguistic historiography. Modern narrative linguistic historiography pays particular attention to the periods right before the appearance of new linguistic paradigms. Such was the period of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when the main experts on the Russian language in the Russian Empire, for various reasons, were Germans, and Russian grammars written by German authors became the most common Russian language textbooks.J. S. Vater is known in the history of linguistics not only as a disciple and successor of J. C. Adelung, but also as one of the founders of Slavic studies, the author of «Practical Grammar of the Russian Language» and «The Book for Reading in the Russian Language». The appearance of J. S. Vater's works was associated with such Russian military and political figures as A. S. Shishkov, N. I. Akhverdov and M. S. Schulepnikov, who also contributed to the development of Russian culture and Russian linguistics, as well as with his teacher's nephew F. P. Adelung. J. S. Vater published his very first grammar of the Russian language in 1808 in Leipzig. In this work, he relied on the «Russian grammar for Germans» published in Moscow in 1789 by J. Heym, professor of the Faculty of Linguistics at Moscow University