“Who is Bright is Holy”: Situation of Light Designation in Akathists to Russian Saints

The results of a study the situation light designation in akathists to Russian saints is presented article. relevance studying phenomenon on this material due, firstly, most important text-forming role designs hymnographic genre, and secondly, need for an in-depth verb organization Slavic sentence. became direct object analysis, participants subject. focus research attention relevant valence (semantic syntactic) characteristics as structural center main methods were: functional-semantic, contextual analysis lexical units, statistical. As result study, linguistic corpus designations (3,157 units) was identified, their part-of-speech affiliation characterized, chronological distribution demonstrated, dominant root-forming elements (svet-, siya-, zar-, blist-, svesh-) were established. Particular paid grammatical mechanisms that provide designation, well its participants. emphasis participant — light. description register possible semantic roles (Subject, Object subtypes) focused division traditional Orthodox metaphysics light: “uncreated light”, “smart light” “sensual light”.