The native word in philological conception of F.I. Buslaev

In F.I. Buslayev's works, the conception of “nativity” is often referred to when one means native verses, native poetry. Naturally, the original word can also be called a “native word”. The phenomenon of nativity is connected, according to Buslayev, with the independent existence from the arbitrary rule. The basic feature of nativity is its moral and ethical contents. The unity of the people and of the personality in their active work explains the paradox of the “unprecedented evenness of the Russian language in its local usage”. The nativity of the language displays the absence of the word “nativity” in the text and its conceptual accumulation in language units. The accumulation accounts for the language ability to be the basic ethnic feature. It serves as a basis for heuristic processes and word formation and also acts as an instrument of cognition. Therefore, the study of peoples' history is impossible without the study of their languages, in which the history of the people is reflected. F. I. Buslayev's ideas, concerning the nativity of poetic words, became the basis of the future linguafolklore and of the analysis of regular epithets that displayed laconic brevity in traditional culture. The development of these ideas started with the observation of proper nouns in folklore texts. F.I. Buslayev put forward the idea of composing a dictionary of constant epithets that can help to determine the Russian people's thinking. F. I. Buslayev appreciated the value of lexicography and linguistic methods in lexicography. While studying the native word, Buslayev in fact became the fiest Russian philologist in the modem understanding of this term.