Grammal functions of the particular же in the Russian language (based on the texts of Ambassadorial books of the 17th century on communications of Russia with Khiva and Bukhara were involved)

The urgency of the given article is caused by that it is devoted to one of the important problems of the history of Russian linguistics — to research of morphological features of monuments of Russian business writing, in particular, grammatical functions of a particle же (ж) on an example of the business documents created as a result of diplomatic communications of Russian state with the countries of the East. For the analysis, the texts of Ambassadorial books of the 17th century on communications of Russia with Khiva and Bukhara were involved.

It is underlined, that the particle же (ж) was used in the texts of ambassadorial books with nouns, adjectives, numerals, pronouns, adverbs, verbs and verbal forms as a universal category, the adverbial modifiers which caused its wide common use were analyzed.