The Problem of Accentologic Terminology

Halyna Kobyrynka

Information about the author: candidate of Philological Sciences, Senior Researcher of Dialectology Department of the Ukrainian Language Institute of NAS of Ukraine

e-mail: kobyrynka2008@ukr.net

Title: The Problem of Accentologic Terminology

Rubric: Terminology of Linguistic and Related Sciences

Language: Ukrainian

Abstract: The aim of the study is to analyze the stages of putting into the scientific circulation and the functioning of accentological terminology in the Ukrainian linguistic area.

The sources of the study are the ancient Ukrainian grammars and theoretical works about accent.

The article focuses on how researchers perceived and understood such a complex phenomenon as an accent since the XVI century, because the development of the terminology base also depends on this; on which terms the phenomena of the words accentuation in the ancient Ukrainian grammars are marked and their further functioning in the Ukrainian linguistic area is analyzed.

This period of time is chosen, because the accent in the ancient Ukrainian written monuments is used from the XVI century.

It is noted that in each period of linguistics development the accentology was interpreted differently by researchers: as a separate part of grammar; as a separate part of linguistics; as a part of phonetics; as a supersegment unit; as a component of morphology. In grammar works of middle XX – beginning XXI centuries verbal accent is analyzed in phonetic and morphological aspects; attention is paid to the interdependence of accent and phonetic processes with morphological peculiarities of word changing.

As the above-mentioned material shows, the researchers of the Ukrainian system considered the accent as an important phenomenon in the language structure. In addition to the time-quantitative characteristics and expiration that influence the quality of the vowels and consonants in the stressed and unstressed words, the researchers drew attention to the movement of the verbal accent, freedom, non-attachment to the syllable and morphemes. Also they stressed on the importance of accent in those languages where it is movable, since the same word, but differently emphasized, can acquire completely different meanings. It is also noted that the accent was not analyzed in all grammar works.

It is identified that the theory about accent researchers called in different ways: Prosody, Prypalo, Stress, Prypetie, Accent, Accentology. The origin, the functioning of these terms and the putting of new terms (in particular, prosodeme, accent, accentuation, etc.) into the scientific space, the outlining of accent issues are studied.

The analyzed material shows that accentological terminology was based on the Greek-Latin basis: the authors of the ancient grammars of the end XVI−XVII centuries used the terms of classical languages grammars, that “were perceived as an example of development and orderliness”. The originality of this or that scientist, according to V.V. Nimchuk, was manifested primarily in the way how he was able to research or describe the Slavic system in terms of his epoch.

Historical circumstances have developed so that from the nineteenth century the Ukrainian linguists emerged from the Greek-Latin theory frame, revealed the peculiarities of the Ukrainian system in general and the accentual in particular, which also motivated the development of theoretical, terminological basis.

In modern linguistic works researchers use nattive Ukrainian and borrowed terms: emphasis − accent, accentuation; to accent − to emphasize; accentuation − emphasis; stressed − accentual; accentuated −accented.

Keywords: emphasis, accent, accentology, concept, Ukrainian linguistic area

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