Open AccessMarking Ends of Sentences in Middle of the 17th centuryʼs Church Slavonic Text
Author(s) -
Н.В. Николенкова
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
stephanos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2309-9917
DOI - 10.24249/2309-9917-2021-46-2-83-89
Subject(s) - punctuation , sentence , linguistics , grammar , sign (mathematics) , history , literature , art , philosophy , mathematics , mathematical analysis
The article deals with the punctuation of Church Slavonic texts in the mid-17th century and the process of forming a sentence as a unit of written text that begins at this time. First of all, it is shown that the rules for the marking sentence boundary are described in the Grammar of 1648: this is the use of the dot sign and the use of a capital letter after it. Examining the translation of Blau’s Atlas made in the second half of the 50s in Moscow, we find that both the translators and the scribes of the whitewash copies sought to comply with these new norms. The result of the activity of the scribes influenced the punctuation of Church Slavonic printed books of the second half of the 17th century.