history of the Russian language

The article reveals several current issues of documental linguistics and genre theory – grammatical means of expressing/actualizing textual chronotope in the 18th cent. official documents from the Archive Fund  of the Mikhailovsky Stanichny ataman of the State Archive of the Volgograd Region, which are described with the procedure of genre related analysis.

The article deals with historic dynamics of Russian word-formative system in the aspect of genre and stylistic development of written language. The development of word-formative means, meanings, and models is greatly influenced by the peculiarities of the language genre and stylistic system in a given chronological period, as well as by the value hierarchy of written genres.