The language of Siberian accounting office work at the turn of the 17th–18th centuries

The article is devoted to the terms of the Siberian taxation of the Peter the Great era. The material was a historical document reflecting the results of state accounting activities within one Siberian district. The significance of the language of patrol books in the system of legal language at the turn of the 17th–18th centuries is proved. The uniqueness of the “Patrol Book of the Tara County of 1701” as a source for the reconstruction of the fiscal terminological system is demonstrated. A circle of terms denoting a household direct tax from the indigenous inhabitants of Siberia and from the newcomer population is revealed. As a result of a comprehensive analysis of vocabulary, the systemic nature of lexical and semantic relationships within a given lexical group, based on genus-species relations, is shown. The word-formation and grammatical characteristics of the nominations are given. The problem of variability of terminological nominations within the patrol book in comparison with Siberian documents of other genres is discussed. The dependence of the name structure on its terminological function in the structure and system of the text is revealed. It has been established that the quantitative composition of the components in terminological nominations conveys the gradation of their semantics from chronologically initial types of tax to specific characteristics. The terms relevant for the Siberian taxation, differentiating taxes according to the nature of possessions and property, are indicated.