Maria Ermolova (HSE University) On the genesis of the anti-resultative meaning of the pluperfect in the history of Russian
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As is well known, Russian constructions with the participle было (пошел было, но вернулся) go back to the Old Russian pluperfect with the anti-resultative meaning. Denoting the anti-resultative meaning is one of the main secondary functions of the pluperfect in the languages of the world. V.A. Plungian and D.V. Sitchinava, based on typological data, connect the emergence of the anti-resultative with different pluperfect meanings from the semantic zone of the discontinuous past. However, data from the Russian chronicles, as well as live dialect data, show that the anti-resultative meaning in the history of Russian could develop not from the meaning of the discontinuous past, but from the resultative meaning.