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Аннотация:The paper discusses the relation between linguistics and semiotics on the basis of the Old Russian discourse particle ТИ1 meaning ‘indeed’, ‘verily’, ‘truly’ discovered by Andrei A. Zaliznyak in 1993. Linguistics and semiotics are different research programs: the former deals with specific features of language structures, while the latter discusses general characteristics of all sign systems, from a perspective of interpreting most or all of them as secondary to natural language. Formal models of language deal with classes of elements and predict their positions. Lexicographic descriptions give instructions to the use of particular language items treated as signs with their concepts and syntactics. Functional words including discourse particles allow both approaches. The existence of Old Russian particle ТИ1 was proved by Zaliznyak on the basis of formal conditions constraining the position of this particle in the clausal structure. Meanwhile, Zaliznyak failed to provide a lexicographical description of ТИ1 and reliable external parallels from other languages. The author argues that ТИ1 is a marker of verification with the meaning ‘p really takes place’. The view that ТИ1 expressed enhanced indicativity is not tenable, since this particle was licensed in hypothetical contexts and combined with the optative marker. It is essential to identify the lexicographic type of a functional word in order to get its full syntactics.