"In A Systemic View as the Base of Philological Thought, Olga Valentinova, Vladimir Denisenko, Sergey Preobrazhenskii, and Mikhail Rybakov explore the interrelation of language material, structure, and functions in various subjects of philological research, such as grammatical systems of language, semantics, linguistic personality, literary text, and formal aspects of verse. Their systemic approach is rooted in the theories of Wilhelm von Humboldt and his followers, including Russian scholars Alexander Potebnya, Gustav Shpet, and more recently Gennadii Prokop'evichMel'nikov (1928-2000). The authors use the concept of systemicity as an opportunity to see the studied whole in development, to show the functional interaction of linear and supra-linear connections, to explain their interdependence, and to predict further changes within the system. This book displays the scientific potential of the systemic approach to linguistics and related spheres, employing the framework of systematicity to revise the modern trends of philology and to map out an alternative paradigm for linguistic and philological thought that could restore the status of philology as a holistic science"--.

• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Part I. HOW TO CLASSIFY LANGUAGES: AUTONOMOUS CLASSIFICATIONS OR A COMPREHENSIVE ONE?
  • Chapter One. The Main Problems of Linguistic Typology
  • Chapter Two. Can a Linguistic Classification Explain Anything About a Language?
  • Chapter Three. The Prospects of Creating a Semantic Language Typology
  • Chapter Four. Fundamental Concepts of Systemic Methodology and G. P. Mel’nikov’s Systemic Typology
  • Chapter Five. The Typological Analysis of the Category of Case
  • Chapter Six. The Systemic Theory of Predication: The Internal Form of Morphological Types
• Part II. MODELLING THE SYSTEM OF LANGUAGE
  • Chapter Seven. Modelling the System of Language with Regard to the Linguistic Personality
  • Chapter Eight. Research Potential of the Semantic Field Method
• Part III. THE SYSTEMIC APPROACH TO INVESTIGATING TEXT AND STYLE: THE RATIONALE OF THE CAUSAL TYPOLOGY OF TEXTS
  • Chapter Nine. The Medieval Model of Correlation Between Form and Content
  • Chapter Ten. The Secularized Consciousness and Overcoming the Medieval Principle of Form–Content Correlation
  • Chapter Eleven. Desacralization as the Main Vector of Historical Change in the Semantic Structure of the Russian Literary Language
  • Chapter Twelve. Stylistic Signs of Our Time: Visible Changes in the Public Consciousness
  • Chapter Thirteen. The Potential of the Systemic Approach in the Study of Artistic Texts
• Part IV. THE SYSTEMIC ANALYSIS OF VERSE
  • Chapter Fourteen. G. P. Mel’nikov: A Linguist for the Twenty-First Century
  • Chapter Fifteen. “Shevchenko’s” Hexasyllable as a Common Slavic Two-Accent and Two-Word Verseme
  • Chapter Sixteen. The Hypothesis of the Typological Proximity of Micropolymetry and Devotional Verse
  • Chapter Seventeen. The Logaoedic Adoneus as an International Two-Word Verseme
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Names Index
• Essential Terms Index
• About the Authors