Ukrainian-Russian dictionary-addition to I. Kotlyarevsky’s Aeneides: the leakes of the levels of modern Ukrainian lexicography

Abstract

The lexicographic activity of Ivan Kotlyarevsky, the founder of the new Ukrainian literary language, has constantly attracted and attracted the attention of researchers. The further in time his figure moves away from us, the more noticeable is his influence on the present. In the field of linguistic interests, the most prominent place is the issue of selection and extension of lexical and phraseological means, syntactic constructions of the author of “Aeneid”. Less attention is given to the research of I. Kotlyarevsky's work as a lexicographer – the founder and sponsor of the author's lexicography. The article attempts to trace the impact on the following Ukrainian lexicographic works of the Dictionary of the Lesser Russian words contained in “Aeneid” and many other Little Russians used for the fourth part of I. Kotlyarevsky. Small in size (1,125 words) and composed mainly to the text of the one work (“Aeneids”), Kotlyarevsky's dictionary is valuable both as the first Ukrainian-Russian dictionary with a vocabulary register of the new Ukrainian literary language, and as a model for compilling similar dictionaries in different editions. The lexical and phraseological units, attested in the annex to the “Aeneid” in 1809, are traced to the presence in the following Ukrainian lexicographic works of the 19th – beginning of the 21st centuries. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of Ivan Kotlyarevsky as the originator of Ukrainian author's lexicography in connection with the creation of the vocabulary of the creative personality language.