A Big Change Starts Small – Pronominal Clitics in 12-15th Century Old Russian Chronicles

East Slavic languages, in contrast with South and West Slavonic ones did not retain enclitic pronominals. In Old Russian (ОR) however, these forms were widely used. As manuscripts suggest, they dissapeared from the language by the end of the OR period, i. e. by the 15th-16th centuries. The paper gi...

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Main Author: Beáta Györfi
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Language:deu
Published: Debrecen University Press 2020-07-01
Series:Slavica
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Online Access:https://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/slavica/article/view/6681
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spelling doaj-33f6139d20c64080905b385178d6b0a82020-12-08T12:01:38ZdeuDebrecen University PressSlavica0583-53562732-01462020-07-014910.31034/049.2020.01A Big Change Starts Small – Pronominal Clitics in 12-15th Century Old Russian ChroniclesBeáta Györfi0University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary East Slavic languages, in contrast with South and West Slavonic ones did not retain enclitic pronominals. In Old Russian (ОR) however, these forms were widely used. As manuscripts suggest, they dissapeared from the language by the end of the OR period, i. e. by the 15th-16th centuries. The paper gives an overview of the use of enclitic pronominals in the text of five OR chronicles relying on the diachronic corpus of Russian National Corpus. The analysis focuses on the  distribution of clitic pronominals, their placement, clusterizing properties and deviating constructions. The last section is devoted to the placement of the investigated phenomenon in the complex of parametric variation envoked by the disintegration of the tense-aspect system. https://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/slavica/article/view/6681encliticsOld Russiantense-aspect systemdiachronic syntaxpronominals
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A Big Change Starts Small – Pronominal Clitics in 12-15th Century Old Russian Chronicles
Slavica
enclitics
Old Russian
tense-aspect system
diachronic syntax
pronominals
author_facet Beáta Györfi
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title A Big Change Starts Small – Pronominal Clitics in 12-15th Century Old Russian Chronicles
title_short A Big Change Starts Small – Pronominal Clitics in 12-15th Century Old Russian Chronicles
title_full A Big Change Starts Small – Pronominal Clitics in 12-15th Century Old Russian Chronicles
title_fullStr A Big Change Starts Small – Pronominal Clitics in 12-15th Century Old Russian Chronicles
title_full_unstemmed A Big Change Starts Small – Pronominal Clitics in 12-15th Century Old Russian Chronicles
title_sort big change starts small – pronominal clitics in 12-15th century old russian chronicles
publisher Debrecen University Press
series Slavica
issn 0583-5356
2732-0146
publishDate 2020-07-01
description East Slavic languages, in contrast with South and West Slavonic ones did not retain enclitic pronominals. In Old Russian (ОR) however, these forms were widely used. As manuscripts suggest, they dissapeared from the language by the end of the OR period, i. e. by the 15th-16th centuries. The paper gives an overview of the use of enclitic pronominals in the text of five OR chronicles relying on the diachronic corpus of Russian National Corpus. The analysis focuses on the  distribution of clitic pronominals, their placement, clusterizing properties and deviating constructions. The last section is devoted to the placement of the investigated phenomenon in the complex of parametric variation envoked by the disintegration of the tense-aspect system.
topic enclitics
Old Russian
tense-aspect system
diachronic syntax
pronominals
url https://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/slavica/article/view/6681
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