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ON SOME VERBAL FEATURES IN THE WEST RUSSIAN CHRONICLES (CONSTRUCTIONS “ÁÛÒÈ + PARTICIPLE IN -ÚØ- / -ÂÚØ-”, PLUPERFECT)

Maria Ermolova ()
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Abstract: This article analyzes some verbal features in the West Russian Chronicles (WRC) (15–16th cc.). The 1st part examines contexts with the construction “áûòè + participle in -úø- / -âúø-”. This construction is extremely uncommon for Old Russian texts, nevertheless the very possibility of its use is important for understanding the history of the development of the temporal system in Russian. The material of WRC allows us to widen the list of contexts with this construction with two more examples. The 2nd part discusses the functions of pluperfect forms. Rare forms of pluperfect with the linking verb in the aorist form are found in WRC which is quite unexpected for a late text. This article discusses possible explanations for this phenomenon. As for the semantics of the pluperfect forms, all of the basic pluperfect meanings are presented in WRC. The comparison of the contexts with these meanings with the material of the other chronicles allows us to draw a number of conclusions about the history of the pluperfect’s development in Old Russian and its dialects

Keywords: Old Russian language; West Russian Chronicles; past active participle; pluperfect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2020
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Published in WP BRP Series: Linguistics / LNG, November 2020, pages 1-16

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