From the history of the using of the prepositions with the aiming of the meaning in the official documents of the second half of the XVIII century (on the material of the united state archive of the Chelyabinsk region)

The article deals with the analysis of the meaning and function of non-derived lexical and phraseological prepositions that denote purpose. The material under analysis is business-related texts of the second part of the 18th century. The presents a system of group meanings of the prepositions and analyses governing verbs and nouns governed by them.