The research is aimed at revealing the nature of the grammatical norm of the literary language of the transition period and is dedicated to the memory of Nadezhda Gainullina, my favorite teacher and friend. Nadezhda Ivanovna research interests focused on the literary language of the Peter the Great’s era. The development of loanword vocabulary on the material of “letters and papers of Peter the Great” was devoted to her candidate dissertation and doctoral research, articles and monographs containing a deep understanding of the role and place of Peter the Great in the history of the Russian literary language and revealing the deep meaning of the processes taking place during this period in the literary language and, in particular, the state of the language norm. We comprehend this far from us period of the history of the Russian literary language, which has a special theoretical significance, since it is a literary language of the transition period. We have established that such historical periods provide an opportunity to understand the dialectic development of the literary language, the right to raise the question of the relationship between the critical categories of historical styles as a norm, language usage, style. It is approved that findings, which comes to N.I. Gainullina, have important theoretical value. It is concluded that the proposed N.I. Gainullina understanding of the norms of the transition period can be of theoretical importance not only for the Peter the Great's era, but also for any transition period in the history of any literary language, in particular, for understanding the language situation of our time, which is characterized by a sharp change of cultural and historical paradigms, definitely reflected in the modern Russian language, in the language of our days in the form of multilayered innovative layering on the relatively traditional forms of expression.
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