THE VARIETY OF FORMULAS OF THE RUSSIAN FAIRY TALE AS A RESULT OF THEIR VARIATION

Abstract

. The article studies a problem of established fragments of folklore text. Despite the many-years experience in studying this phenomenon, there is still no unity in the understanding of the formula, and the determination of the formula which could be considered comprehensive has not been elaborated. In the present article, established fragment of the text of a fairy tale, namely structures representing the giver, were analyzed not only from the point of view of lexical arrangement and lexical content, but also from the point of view of their semantic arrangement. In the course of the analysis, the structural and semantic stability of the discussed structures was mentioned which can be explained by a typical function of an introduced character. It was determined that the teller uses syntactical structures built using the same structural scheme which is filled by a limited group of high-frequency lexical elements.