Avvakum Im(personal): A Categorization Approach to Information Structure and Coreference in the Historical Russian Text from the 17th Century

This study analyzes third-person plural impersonal constructions in the Old Russian text The Life of Archpriest Avvakum. It examines various interpretations of these constructions based on their semantic features, frequencies, and contexts. The findings provide insights into the semantic patterns of impersonal constructions. Their connection to the diachronic evolution of the Russian grammatical system and the narrative genre of the text is discussed.