A STRATO-ONTIC STUDY OF A SECTION IN GENE EDWARDS’ “A TALE OF THREE KINGS”

Abstract

The strato-ontic study of the language has plausibly taken root in the Armenian linguistics over the last decades. The generic nature of such a study enables it to be used for different languages. On the one hand, the modelling and stratification of units up to the over-utterance stratum seem objectively easy, on the other hand, it is challenging to perform the same actions for the uppermost unit, that on the over-utterance stratum, i.e. the text, due to its volume and multifaceted nature. The object of the study is a section of an epic representation of a biblical narrative, which we have studied in terms of Ed. Atayan's strato-ontic view of the language.