THE PRESENT-FUTURE TENSE IN THE TRINITY MISCELLANY (RUSSIAN STATE LIBRARY, PAPER 12) Cover Image

ПРЕЗЕНС-ФУТУРУМ В ТРОИЦКОМ СБОРНИКЕ (РГБ, ТР. 12)
THE PRESENT-FUTURE TENSE IN THE TRINITY MISCELLANY (RUSSIAN STATE LIBRARY, PAPER 12)

Author(s): Oleg Feofanovich Zholobov
Subject(s): History, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Middle Ages, Morphology, Historical Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics, Eastern Slavic Languages, 13th to 14th Centuries
Published by: Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет
Keywords: indicative; present-future tense; potential mood; coreference predicativity; corpus linguistics;

Summary/Abstract: In this article, we investigate the variation forms of the present-future tense in the third person singular and plural, the genesis and the functioning of which is one of the most complex and insufficiently studied problems in historical grammar. For the first time we analyze the zero forms of the present-future tense in the Trinity Miscellany (Troitskii Sbornik) of the 12th – 13th centuries in terms of the categories of the potential mood and the coreference predicativity. We use the linguistic and textological parallels from two early Old Russian manuscripts – the Pandects of Antiochus (11th century) and the selected chapters from the Pandects in the Trinity Miscellany (12th – 13th centuries). We establish that the zero forms appear in multipredicative groups with morphologically homogeneous and functionally correlative predicates.

  • Issue Year: 155/2013
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 30-39
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Russian