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The Nature of the Sources. Since the phenomenon of HA is inherently tied to a “culture of days gone by” (Houtzagers 2018:7), above all, I shall address the problem of the sources. As noted in ▇▇▇▇▇▇ (2002:3), we do not have any proper scientific descriptions of the authentic language use from the 18th and 19th centuries. The literature specifically dedicated to language, such as grammar books, had a rather prescriptive character back then. From what we know at the present moment, there was no rule imposed by which the use of plural in reference was regulated. Another medium that is potentially able to provide a clear representation of the language state, namely letters, is far from being truly representative due to a number of reasons. First, we have to consider that only a relatively small part of the population was literate. According to Grenoble (2003:46), the estimated overall literacy in Russia in 1897 was 24%. Second, the letters which have been preserved since those times are sparse and were usually written by someone outstanding, e.g. monarchs, ▇▇▇▇▇▇, renowned authors. This implies a certain level of censorship and therefore affects the authenticity of language used in such sources. This applies to newspapers as well. Ultimately, even though letters and newspapers can be useful in linguistic research, looking into HA is not one of them. Bearing in mind the scarce availability of such sources as well as the unique combination of factors for the HA construction to occur,15 it does not seem like a plausible strategy to pursue. Taking into consideration everything mentioned above, the only type of sources a researcher can resort to are literary texts. Undeniably, literary texts are fiction, and thus, taking them as our primary source, we can only arrive at the description of something approximate to reality (▇▇▇▇▇▇ 2002:3). Nevertheless, the huge advantage of literary texts are availability and abundance. The existence of extensive corpora, like the Russian National Corpus, facilitates convenient and rather quick data collection. Before introducing the Russian National Corpus in the next section, I would like to recur to the time period mentioned for the usage of HA construction, namely the 19th century. As explained in the first paragraph of this section, there is no substantial linguistic 15 By the unique combination of factors I mean a communicative situation where a speaker of lower social status is referring to a person of higher social status.
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