SYNTACTIC AGREEMENT WITH TERMS FOR HUNDREDS: NORM-USAGE-SYSTEM

This article examines the syntactic agreement of nouns indicating countable items when used with the numerals двести — девятьсот (с пятьюстами рублями / рублей) in the last two decades and in historical respect. The scope of the potential variation of government by the noun and later agreement with the noun is outlined. Based on the data from the National Corpus of the Russian Language, it has been established that, in the forms of the prepositional and dative cases, modern usage consistently reflects agreement (в пятистах рублях, к пятистам рублям). The variation between government and agreement is reflected only in the instrumental case. 
The features of modern usage are interpreted as a continuation of the trends that have occurred in the grammatical system over the past five centuries. It has been shown that the prepositional case form is the most receptive to agreement at each stage of development. This feature of the prepositional case is confi rmed by observations on the latest syntactic relations of the terms for thousands. Agreement of the compound numeral with the word тысяча (в сорока тысячах компаниях) is an innovation of the last two decades. It reveals the same differences between the dative, instrumental and prepositional cases as the terms for hundreds.
The variation in syntactic agreement with terms for thousands is not recognized as a literary norm, unlike variations in terms for hundreds. However, as the study showed, it does not affect the nature of its manifestation.