THE HYPHENATED SPELLING OF PARTICLE ЛИ IN THE HISTORY OF RUSSIAN SPELLING

Abstract

The article studies a hyphenating particle ли (ль) in the 19th century. The article’s task is to specify a codified and common spelling norm, trace its dynamics and find out which role the hyphenated use of particles played at this stage. Particle spelling codification is represented in academic dictionaries and grammars of the 19th century. Usage is specified by the method of continuous sampling on the material posted in the “National Corpus of the Russian Language”. The article presents the following facts of codification and patterns of the use of a hyphen in the design of words of this part of speech. The Dictionary of the Russian Academy standardizes separate spellings of ли (ль), and in the text of the dictionary separate and continuous uses vary, hyphenated ones not being found. However, throughout the 19th century, the particle ли (ль) is used in actual spelling with a hyphen, though the number of separate spellings exceeds the number of hyphen cases. Having analyzed the patterns with the particle ли (ль), Ya.K. Grot finally legalized their separate spelling in the works of analytical and codifying nature at the end of the 19th century.