Published: 1996-12-31

Nominative Sentences in the Language of Science and Technology in Russian (in Comparison with Serbian)

Andrei Stoânovič

Abstract

 Nominative sentences in Russian and Serbian (genre of text-books and manuals) exhibit a high degree of resemblance as to their function: in both languages they perform the function of a title. Some common characteristics are also shown with regard to the means of expression, the most prominent being wide use within titles of deverbative nouns (Nomina actionis), with acquie thus semi-predicative nature. However, more important interlinguistic resemblance is related to differences in the use of verbs: in the Russian titles examined, verbs are most often omitted, whereas in Serbian they are used more freely. It is probably a consequence of differences between the two grammar systems (limited use of participles in modem Serbian).

Although genetic relation between the two Slavic languages is important, future contrastive-stylistic analysis of scientific style should be focused on possible extralinguistic differences (difference in the developmental history of scientific styles and their subsequent growth; differences in language traditions established, in (stylistic) uses accepted; different degree of language editor's interference, etc.).

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Stoânovič, A. (1996). Nominative Sentences in the Language of Science and Technology in Russian (in Comparison with Serbian). Stylistyka, 5, 313–322. Retrieved from https://czasopisma.uni.opole.pl/index.php/s/article/view/4309

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