Registration Documents of the Don Army in the 18th Century: Content and Structure of Texts

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of the content and speech organization of the texts of accounting and reporting documents of the 18th century of the Chanceries of the Don Fund Troops of the Mikhailovsky stanitsa ataman of the State Archives of the Volgograd Region. The relevance of the research is determined by solving the problems of creating an annotated linguistic corpus of documents. Lists, catalogues, registers, inventories, statements, notes are considered from the point of view of such genre parameters as name, addressee, addressee, date and place of creation of the document. Highlighted speech markers, explicating these parameters and organizing the text. The similarities and differences of documents of different genres are revealed. It is shown that the composition of texts has a two — or three-part structure; in some documents it varies, in others it is constant; the availability of the date, the indication of the addressee also varies. Information about the enumerated objects in documents of one genre is conveyed in more or less detail, systematized or not, in text or tabular form. With the variability of texts, a tendency towards standardization of texts of one genre and differentiation of different genres was noted. The considered parameters allow to establish the genre of documents without self-naming and can be used for automated meta-tagging of texts.