NOTES ON THE FORMAL-STATE DOCUMENT OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY

Abstract

The article is dedicated to linguistic description of one of the most important legislative acts of Ekaterina’s era, which sets out a framework of reform of the provincial administration in Russia. The author notes some spelling, lexical, morphological and syntactic features of the document, pointing out its linguistic differences from the norms of the local business writing of the same era. It allows to understand the system of linguistic units of the administrative documentation in the context of official style that was developed in the second half of the 18th the century and has formed new literary language.