“HE LOVED HIS NATIVE LANGUAGE TO THE POINT OF ADORATION...ˮ (A new reading of A.N. Ostrovsky’s texts on Kostroma land: bibliography review)

For many years, Кostroma researchers, full and associate members of the educational and scientific research laboratory “Lexicology and Lexicography” currently operating at Kostroma State University, have been studying the works of A.N. Ostrovsky in linguistic terms. Russian Russian writers have worked out in sufficient detail both the problem of the folk-colloquial, including dialectal, stream in the multidimensional work of the classic of Russian literature playwright, and the problem of the playwright’s contribution to the creation of a new Russian literary language built on democratic principles and continuing the Pushkin tradition of organic fusion of book and spoken elements. The topics such as “Lexical richness of the Russian language” with subtopics are noted: vocabulary of significant and official parts of speech, productive and rare, motivated and unmotivated, free and composed of stable turns, modern and outdated, neutral and affected vocabulary, own and common, locally and stylistically colored, including vernacular, professionalism and jargonisms, native Russian and borrowed vocabulary, etc., as well as the topic “Grammatical features of the hypotaxis of texts by A.N. Ostrovsky”, etc. The genre theme of studying the language of the playwright’s works is embodied in more than a hundred scientific articles in academic publications of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, peer-reviewed scientific journals, various collections of scientific papers and materials of scientific conferences, in the creation of dictionaries, encyclopedias, monographs, dissertations. The authors of the review article also offer a bibliographic index of works on the language of A.N. Ostrovsky’s works published by Kostroma researchers in 1974–2022.