OLD RUSSIAN SUBCORPUS OF THE RUSSIAN NATIONAL CORPUS

The paper deals with the Old Russian subcorpus of the Russian National Corpus that comprises original Old Russian texts (chronicles, hagiography etc.) and Old Russian translations from Greek. The subcorpus contains approximately 500 000 words. The paper describes the grammatical tagging used in the subcorpus and possible ways of constructing complex queries taking into account specific features of Old Russian texts and with special emphasis on possibility to construct syntactic queries. The results of some queries are presented and analyzed in the article: 1) the usage of the construction “finite form of the verb byti + participle” (e. g. bě lovy děja), 2) the lack of active praesens participle and imperfect forms of the perfective verbs dati and pustiti except the contexts with negation, 3) word orders in the group “finite verb + direct object + indirect object represented by the pronoun и (ємѹ, єи, имъ)”.