MARINE TERMS IN UNPUBLISHED WORKS OF ADMIRAL S. I. MORDVINOV MID 18TH CENTURY

The unpublished works of S. I. Mordvinov have not yet come to the attention of linguists and are a newsource for studying the vocabulary of the Russian language of the 18th century. Two essays by this author on maritimeaffairs have been preserved, written at intervals of a couple of decades – in the late 1730s and in 1764. The purpose ofthis study is to describe the changes that the terminological system of the sphere of ship tactics experienced in the useof one author. According to our observations, the later work of 1764 is a revised version of the work of the 1730s.Although each of the manuscripts preserved in the RASL collection has an original, non-coinciding content – someparagraphs, sections, but the main sections coincide, including in headings, sometimes with variations. A comparisonof the terminology of the two treatises shows that the specific terms of ship evolution (i.e., the position of ships information and its changes), in contrast to the more general marine terminology of Mordvinov, are oriented towards French usage. At the same time, in his later work, the gallicization of the terminological system intensifies – at the morphological and phonetic levels. In this way, Mordvinov tries to standardize the terms in this area.

marine terminology, ship evolutions, Russian language of the 18th century, historical lexicology, gallicisms