ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF LINGUISTIC STUDIES: TO THE ISSUE OF POLISH IFLUENSES ON THE FORMULAS IN RUTHENIAN PRIVILEGE DEEDS

Abstract

The study of the links between the style of Ruthenian deeds from the second half of the 16th – mid 17th centuries and their Polish counterparts just began in Ukrainian historical linguistics. Thus, this paper aims to analyse the role of Polish acts and act language in the development of certain linguistic formulas in the Ruthenian privilege deeds from the second half 16th – mid 17th centuries. The sections of inscriptio, promulgatio, salutatio, sanctio, datum, and subscriptio are in the research focus. At the stylistical level, in Ukraine, the Ruthenian privilege deeds were proved to clearly follow the Polish documents possibly due to the expansion of the Polish document and the language which was compulsory and prestigious among educated people. The influence manifests in the following: the deeds where the inscriptio has a list of addressees became typical; the promulgatio goes after the inscriptio; the salutatio gets Polish-like linguistic formulas and – if this section appears – there is no promulgatio;the new prohibition formulas in the sanctio as well as the absence of corroboratio and vice versa; the establishment of formula sequence in the datum as well as the fixation of three date variants (short, medium, and expanded), and the modification of the datum formulas according to the Polish pattern; the Ruthenian deed subsciptio cogenty influenced by the Polish document (inter alia, king’s Latin signatures, Polish pattern of Ruthenian signatures); the presence of some clichés (not related to the certain clauses) either formed according to the Polish pattern or used in the Ruthenian acts with expansion of such patterns; the support of verbal amplification as a mean of stylistic precept.