THE STRUCTURE OF THREE-COMPONENT ATTRIBUTIVE PHRASES IN THE BUSINESS AND BOOK TEXTS OF THE 17TH CENTURY
In the modern Russian literary languages two attributes precede a noun. But in colloquial speech attributes surround a noun. In the old Russian language word order could vary. We’ve analysed complex attributive phrases in the 17th century’s texts, and found out that there were some dialectal and style differences in the word order: the frame constructions are more wide-spread in the book texts, than in the business ones.