The System of Norms in Melety Smotritsky’s Grammar: The Problems of Reception and Imperativeness
The article sums up philological research devoted to mechanisms of perception in the social milieu of the most authoritative grammar of Old Church Slavonic and establishment of the degree to which it was imperative for the Russian scribes. M.Smotritsky’s original codifying orientation at variability, the character in which systematics and paradigmatics of his grammar were perceived by his contemporaries testify to the fact that M.Smotritsky’s grammar couldn’t give the XVII century scribes strictly regulated practical recommendations, it couldn’t determine their conceptions of the norm and, correspondingly, didn’t have an imperative character.