МОВНИЙ ПОРТРЕТ УКРАїНЦЯ ХVI–XVIII CТ. ЯК ВИЯВ МІЛІТАРНОї КУЛЬТУРИ. ЛЕКСИКОГРАФІЯ

The article elucidates crucial aspects of diachronic linguistics: the importance of written texts, the characteristics of a language historian as a researcher, the specifics of compiling historical dictionaries of the Ukrainian language, and their difference from modern literary language dictionaries. Solving these issues will allow us to present as complete as possible features of the military vocabulary of the Ukrainian language of the 16th–18th centuries in a historical dictionary. Alongside, opinions on the authorship of the first historical dictionary of the Ukrainian language «O Malorossii. O drevnikh obychaiakh malorossiiskikh, o sluzhbe voinskoi i grazhdanskoi, o chinakh i dolzhnostiakh chinovnikov. Po alfavitu» (1808), which is traditionally associated with Vasyl Lomykovskyi (1777 – around 1848) as its compiler, and Oleksandr Lazarevskyi as a publisher, who published a manuscript «Slovar malorusskoi stariny» (1894), are given. What is more, the author argued characteristics of the military vocabulary of the Ukrainian language of the 16th–18th centuries from the standpoint of combinatory linguistics and the importance of word lexicographic codification by the connectivity method. Traits of the interpretation of phrases in small dictionaries (glossaries), as appendices to the texts of Ukrainian monuments, published in recent decades, are confirmed. A combinatory approach in lexicography contributes to a more accurate reproduction of the language situation of the past in general and a language portrait of Ukrainians, native speakers in particular.

 Ukrainian written monuments, historical lexicography, language portrait, military culture, military vocabulary, combinatory linguistics, connectivity.