Semantics of Cause and Evaluation in Two-Part Constructions with Nominal Participle in Ancient Russian Texts with Semantics of Power of the 16 th and 17th Centuries: "Inner World / External World"

The authors are interested in the construction of ideological and axiological meanings in the ancient Russian texts of the time of the autocratic government formation in Russia, which are united by the discussion of the legitimacy of the Tsarist government, its origin, the qualities of a worthy Tsar. The aim of the article is the explication of the ways to justify the evaluation and manifestation of the causes of states and actions, interdependence of internal experiences and external actions of the characters. The work deals with constructions containing the nominal participle in the Old Russian texts of the 16th-17th centuries that discuss the events of Moscow Rus which led to the Time of Troubles. Most of these texts were published on the basis of manuscripts in Volume 13 of the series Russian Historical Library in 1891. Among the authors are S.I. Shakhovskoy, I.M. Katyrev-Rostovsky, Avraamy Palitsyn, Ivan Timofeyev and others. To identify the points of view on the Tsarist government and their development, the texts of the preceding period were also drawn: the correspondence of Tsar Ivan IV with Prince Andrey Kurbsky, the works of Ivan Peresvetov, the composition of the 16th century "On the Causes of the Death of Kingdoms". The authors also use the works of L.P. Yakubinsky, T.P. Lomtev, E.I. Korotayeva, S.D. Nikiforov, M.V. Lyapon, G.A. Zolotova, N.D. Arutyunova, E.M. Wolf, TV. Shmelyova and other researchers. The method of semantic-syntactic analysis is used in the work. The authors consider two-part constructions with nominal participles expressing the correlation of causes and evaluation of phenomena and persons, qualities of the Tsar's power and its bearers. The study is based on a total analysis of the above texts. The spectrum of semantic and syntactic constructions used to describe the causes of the internal state of the characters, their external (physical, speech, mental) actions is revealed; the methods of evaluation are determined. A classification of causal-evaluative statements with nominal participles is proposed. They are treated as multipropositional structures, each of their propositions may be expressed by a personal verb and a nominal participle. Depending on the meanings presented in the parts of the statements, three groups are distinguished: (1) "inner world / external world", 2) "inner world / inner world" and 3) "external world / external world". The authors come to the conclusion that the semantics of causation and evaluation is expressed in an interrelated way in the analyzed texts. Grammatical-syntactic varieties of the model for expressing reasons and evaluations are revealed, in particular, with the semantics of 'quality of the soul', 'desire', 'feelings' (love, hatred, fear) in the first part and 'result' in the second.

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