This book, translated by Lev Blumenfeld, contains a synchronic grammar and grammatical dictionaries of Old Church Slavic. The framework is based on a substantially revised version of the classical descriptive methodology. The intent is to improve on the classical monographs by Vaillant, Diels, Lunt in the direction of utmost completeness, explicitness, and deliberate consistency between the grammatical structure, the corpus of texts (limited to the seven oldest OCS manuscripts), and the dictionaries. The grammar is intended as a set of rules that provide a complete characterization of any OCS wordform. Peculiarities in the language of each source are described as systematic departures from canonical OCS, a conventional constructed variety primarily described by the grammar. The book is addressed to linguists working in Slavic studies, as well as to specialists in the general theory of grammar, especially phonologists and morphologists.
Data from the dictionaries are freely available as a searchable database online here.
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russian Federation - ORCID: 0000-0003-2303-7159
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-4944-0675
Book Title
Old Church Slavic
Book Subtitle
Grammar and Dictionaries
Editors
Artemij Keidan
Authors
Anna Polivanova
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
838
Publication Year
2023
Copyright Information
© 2023 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0104-9
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0103-2
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0104-9
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0105-6
Series Title
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
Series ISSN
2612-7687
Series E-ISSN
2612-7679