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The Panchronic Corpus has been created as part of the RNC. It combines three historical corpora (the Old East Slavic corpus, the Birchbark letters corpus and the Middle Russian corpus), and the Main corpus. Taken together, the Panchronic Corpus covers a thousand years of Russian language history, from the 1020s to the 2020s. Within the Panchronic Corpus you can build a query and find results simultaneously on this entire chronological range.

For this purpose, we have unified the presentation of lexical, orthographic and semantic markup. Lemma can be queried in either Early Old East Slavic (съвѣдѣтель), Middle Russian (свѣдѣтель or свидѣтель) and Modern Russian (свидетель): both historic and modern examples can be found for each of these queries. Similarly, word forms can be specified in different appearances. Historic texts have been given lexical-semantic annotation.

Concordances and frequency charts for all ten centuries are now available to the user for such queries as "preposition po with locative case", "history of the noun zabava", "distribution of verbs of motion with abstract nouns as subjects", "proper names in -slav".