The forms of past tenses in the Old Russian translation of the Life of Saint Andrew the Fool and their equivalents in the original Greek text


2015. № 1 (29), 191-214

Anna V. Sakharova, Vinogradov Institute of Russian Language, RAS

Abstract:

For Old Russian past tense forms (aorist, perfect, pluperfect, imperfect, periphrastic form with načati and periphrastic tense formed with present participle) which occur in the Old Russian translation of the Life of St Andrew the Fool their equivalents with the tenses in the Greek original are analyzed, the numbers of these types of equivalents are counted.