Text - Utterance - Word: Word Autonomicity as Parameter of Historical Syntax [Текст - высказывание - слово: автономность слова как параметр исторического синтаксиса]

In this paper published in the 1st volume of the 'Slavjano-germanskie issledovanija' book series, I render several hypotheses on non-universality of syntactic relations and discuss their combinations. In particular, I trace back several syntactic parameters characteristic of Old Slavic and Old Germanic languages and argue that they are compatible with the so called non-configurationality hypothesis. In Indo-European studies, this hypothesis was first introduced by Zubatý, Meillet and Havránek under the cover term 'word autonomicity'. The relevant data is concerned a) one-word sentences, b) distribution of subjectless impersonals, c) transitional phenomena from ellipsis to zero subjects. I also discuss the origins of the so called lexical predicatives aka 'category of state-of-state' forms. Comments: This paper was written ca. 1998-1999. The list of References contains 89 items from 1900 to 1998, with focus on Germanic and Slavic studies. In this paper, I only discuss the early versions of the non-configurational analysis (Zubatý, Meillet, Havránek, and the followers) without sticking to terms 'non-configurational languages', 'non-configuraltionality' and without discussing the works by Ken Hale and J. T. Faarlund from the 1970-1990-s. See my papers Zimmerling 2002, 2014 in the "Related works" sections. There is a striking similarity between much the theoretical claims based on the descriptions of the oral speech recorded in the XX -XXI centuries and the theoretical claims based on the descriptions of some ancient or medieval texts left by such authorities as Zubatý or Heusler. Unfortunately, some linguists and philologies occasionally reinvent the wheel.