Observations on the use of past tense forms in "The Tale of the Devastation of Ryazan by Batu in 1287" (according to the Lists of the XIV—XVIII centuries)

Abstract

In order to have a complete picture of the development and formation of the Russian literary language, "each of the old monuments of the language must be analyzed separately in relation to lexical, grammatical, and historical-literary." The present work aims to make some contribution to the solution of this problem.