Open AccessA Big Change Starts Small – Pronominal Clitics in 12-15th Century Old Russian Chronicles
Author(s) -
Beáta Györfi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
slavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2732-0146
pISSN - 0583-5356
DOI - 10.31034/049.2020.01
Subject(s) - clitic , slavic languages , linguistics , history , variation (astronomy) , phenomenon , contrast (vision) , period (music) , section (typography) , computer science , classics , art , philosophy , artificial intelligence , physics , epistemology , operating system , aesthetics , astrophysics
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.