Безличные конструкции типа нѣтъ воды в языке русских северо-западных летописных и бытовых памятников ХII–ХVI вв.
Impersonal constructions with genitive in the language of Old Russian Northwestern chronicle and private letters of the 12th–16th centuries
Author(s): Kira ZhuravlevaSubject(s): Historical Linguistics, Russian Literature, Eastern Slavic Languages, 6th to 12th Centuries, 13th to 14th Centuries, 15th Century, 16th Century, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie
Keywords: impersonal sentences; impersonality; Old Russian language; Old Russian chronicles; birch bark letters; genitive case;
Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to impersonal sentences with form of the genitive case in the language of Old Russian Northwestern monuments. A total of 204 sentences were analyzed, of which only 5 do not contain negation. As a result, the semantics of predicates in constructions of this type are described, statistics concerning the peculiarities of the use of forms of moods and tenses is presented. The use of the lexeme нѣтъ (acting in the function ‘there is no’ in the present tense) and its variants in impersonal constructions are analyzed. It is revealed that constructions without negation function in two types – dialectal northwestern construction with the verb быти and constructions with full-valued verbs.
Journal: Studia Russologica
- Issue Year: 15/2022
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 81-94
- Page Count: 14
- Language: Russian