About adverbs of time in Old Russian
Introduction: the article is devoted to studying the identification of adverbs and the errors of their determination in published ancient Russian written monuments and special literature. Materials and Methods: the actual research material is the adverbs of time identified by the continuous sampling method from published ancient Russian monuments. The basis for interpreting the units under study is the comparative method and contextual analysis, which allows differentiating homonymous forms of nouns and adverbs. Results: the adverbs of time in the Old Russian language represented a fairly developed class of words that possessed signs of morphology, demonstrating continuity in development and the rhythmic order in changing one form of the dialect to another. Discussions and Conclusions: the authors suggested and substantiated that the main way of forming adverbs of time in the Old Russian language was not adverbialization of combinations of prepositions with nouns, but a prefixal method in which the primary adverb played the role of the generating basis.