Phenomena of conversational syntax in the written business language of the 18th century (based on the transbaikalian written records)

This article examines syntactic constructions in the written business language of the 18th century which are analogous in structure to modern colloquial constructions. They are various constructions with distant word order, nominative forms as a function of oblique cases, separately arranged syntactic constructions, asyndetic polypredicative constructions, etc. The paper attempts to trace the dependence of the use of these structures on those genres of written business language in which the most favorable conditions for implementation of conversational speech are found.