REPRESENTATION OF DIAGNOSTIC FEATURES IN REPLICAS OF THE MANUSCRIPT OF "THE TALE OF PAST YEARS"
The authors of this article show that different groups of lexemes with the diagnostic properties have essential features both in their representation in “The Tale of Past Years” (or The Russian Primary Chronicle), and in the direction of editorial editing of the manuscript. Regularities in the use of the lexemes that differ in щ / ч < *tj, *kt, *gt found in 6 main replicas of The Russian Primary Chronicle lead to the conclusion that in replicas made by members of the Ipatyevsk group editorial editing went in the direction of primary use of reflexes of South Slavic origin in the majority of correlative word pairs against rather motivated and consecutive use of pleophony. The revealed distinctions in the use of the analyzed pairs with diagnostic properties give the grounds to assume that the replicas produced by the Ipatyevsk group were influenced by the edition of 1118, connected with written traditions of Novgorod scriptorium.