Old church slavonic grammar download ebook pdf, epub. The work is short 143 pages but well organized and nicely setup. The old east slavic language developed a certain literature of its own, though much of it in hand with those of the slavic languages that were, after all, written down was influenced as regards style and vocabulary by religious texts written in church slavonic. This is a comprehensive grammar of the church slavonic language, covering etymology, parts of speech, and syntax.
Old church slavonic is the main source of information about the early history of the south slavic languages, bulgarian and macedonian. Lunt graduated in german in 1941 but had been bitten by the russian bug. One of the oldest pieces of literature in the language. Old church slavonic project gutenberg selfpublishing. Hence expressions such as is the tenth cyrillic letter typically refer to the order of the church slavonic alphabet. Phonetically it is nearest to the theoretical norms posited for the language of cyril and methodius, but certain morphological forms especially aorists and some textual readings seem to be rather younger. Old church slavonic ocs had six cases, plus the vocative form. The church slavonic language also known as new church slavonic, the name proposed by f.
Part 1 old church slavonic grammar part 2 texts and glossary preface this grammar is intended to help students of slavonic philology to interpret old slavonic texts and to provide a startingpoint for studying the history of the slavonic. It was used in the 9th century by the missionaries saints cyril and methodius, who were natives of thessalonica, for preaching to the moravian slavs and for translating the bible into slavic. Lunt s grammar provides a good introduction to the language. Old church slavonic, horace lunt macedonian, victor friedman, facts about worlds languages, 2001 old church slavonic grammar paul cubberley russian.
The specific components of old church slavonic wil be learned by reading texts and using the knowledge of the participants derived from other slavic languages. The objective was to make it possible to have christian service in slavic tongue, instead of in greek, which locals did not understand, and to. Search for library items search for lists search for contacts search for a library. Reviewed by robert orr this volume is advertised as the seventh revised edition of lunt s l groundbreaking old church slavonic grammar, which first appeared in the 1950s, and has long been a classic in the field. Old church slavonic grammar download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl. This description of the structure of old church slavonic is intended to present fully the important data about the language, without citing all the minutiae of tested variant spellings. Old church slavonic grammar by horace lunt though the grammar is quite different, this has a lot of interesting information about the language of the 10th11th centuries.
Old church slavonic grammar horace gray lunt snippet view 2001. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Ilponorocrh this compilation of old slavonic lexemes claims neither originality nor infallibility. After the 12th century, it is known as church slavonic. The charts of declensions and conjugations are clean and well done. These verbs are however still considered irregular, and. This course is an introduction to the structure of old church slavic and its texts. Old church slavonic translation services english to old. Old church slavonic grammar, seventh edition, 2001. By the end of the course, students will have a grounding both in the synchronic structure of ocs. The edition by jagic is available as a download, but it is a poor copy, his transcription of the first 6 verses of mark 1 is shown he conveniently converts to cyrillic. This compilation of old slavonic lexemes claims neither originality nor infallibility. Old church slavonic verbs that are conjugated to display grammatical relations other than the main form.
Old church slavonic online series introduction todd b. The facts have been treated from the point of view of structural linguistics, but pedagogical clarity. Old church slavonic grammar 9783110162844 by lunt, horace g. Old church slavonic, lincom europa, 3 lunt, horace g, 1959. Church slavonic article about church slavonic by the free. A tour of resources for learning church slavonic steve puluka. Old church slavonic spread soon to other slavic regions where it became the religious and literary vehicle of orthodox slavs throughout the middle ages. Psalter in church slavonic and english i have not seen this, so i cannot say whether it is good quality or not. The early cyrillic alphabet is a writing system that was developed in the first bulgarian empire during the late 9th century on the basis of the greek alphabet for the slavic peoples living near the byzantine empire in south east and central europe. This is the standard classic grammar in english for old church slavonic. Horace gray lunt ii, samuel hazzard cross professor of slavic languages and literatures, emeritus, at harvard university, passed away on august 11, 2010, in baltimore, maryland. Old church slavic syllabus 2012 indiana university bloomington. Church slavonic language resources language links database.
In old church slavonic ocs, as in modern russian, nouns have inherent gender masculine, feminine, or neuter and change for case and number, while adjectives and participles agree with the nouns they modified, or are predicated of, in gender, number, and case. Old church slavonic text seminar central european university. Due to its consistent use in all old church slavonic texts, it appears to have been a living element of the language. No matter what your old church slavonic translation needs are, translation services usa can provide for them. The following paper is a description of the old church slavonic conjugation from a purely sychronic point of view. Old church slavonic abstract verbs of motion whose motion is multidirectional as opposed to unidirectional or indirect, or whose action is repeated or in. The dual, and not the plural, is used when for nouns that are two. A good subject heading for this type of resource is church slavic languagegrammar. A linguistic introductioncambridge university press 2002, p. Overview of the case system in old church slavonic. Old church slavonic is the name given to the language that is preserved in several manuscripts and a few inscriptions originating from the regions of the moravian empire, situated between the vistula river and the easternmost extent of carolingian influence, and the bulgarian empire, extending. Part 1 old church slavonic grammar part 2 texts and glossary preface this grammar is intended to help students of slavonic philology to interpret old slavonic texts and to provide a startingpoint for studying the history of the slavonic languages. According to the late slavic linguist horace gray lunt, slavonic or ocs is one of the slavic languages that was used in the various geographical parts of the slavic world for over two hundred years at the time when the slavic languages were undergoing rapid, fundamental changes.
The literature produced in the old bulgarian language soon spread north and became the lingua franca of the balkans and eastern europe, where it came to also be known as old church slavonic. For the endings in the various cases, declensions, genders, stem types and partsofspeech, consult ocs declension tables or lunt 2001. Old church slavonic is the name given to the language that is preserved in several manuscripts and a few inscriptions originating from the regions of the moravian empire, situated between the vistula river and the easternmost extent of carolingian influence, and the bulgarian empire, extending from the lower. It is also referred to as paleo slavic paleoslavic or palaeo slavic palaeoslavic, not to be confused with proto slavic. A good subject heading for this type of resource is church slavic language grammar. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. The characater encoding is an issue here, but its a great site with a number of different texts. Prices in gbp apply to orders placed in great britain only. A tour of resources for learning church slavonic steve. Nonetheless, old church slavonic is the earliest attestation of slavic and can be taken as the best available source of knowledge of late common slavic, even though its aspectual system may have di. Vocabulary and grammar interactive and downloadable worksheet. Nouns found in natural pairs, such as eyes, ears, and hands, are only found rarely in the plural.
Mares is actually a set of at least four different dialects recensions, with essential distinctions between them in dictionary, spelling even in writing systems, phonetics etc. The 9thcentury byzantine greek missionaries saints cyril and methodius are credited with standardizing the language and using it in translating the bible and other ancient greek ecclesiastical texts as. Any and all comments and suggestions are welcome and will probably be heeded. Krause and jonathan slocum this very useful material is provided on the website of the linguistic research center lrc, college of liberal arts at the university of texas at austin. Horace g lunt is the author of old church slavonic grammar 2. Lunt, author of old church slavonic grammar, on librarything. This description of the structure of old church slavonic is intended to present fully the important data about the language, without citing all the minutiae of attested variant spellings. Click download or read online button to get old church slavonic grammar book now. Introduction to old church slavonic declension languages.
Church slavonic developed from old church slavonic and was influenced by the spoken languages of the peoples by whom it was used. He went on to become one of the worlds leading experts in slavic philology and linguistics. For this student of comparative indoeuropean linguistics, however, it proved quite disappointing and nearly unusable for anyone looking for a diachronic view of ocs. This is the cyrillic alphabet, as used in old church slavonic and other slavic languages before the eighteenth.
When lunt repeats the generally accepted opinion that old church slavonic is a form of slavic very close to the language called protoslavic or conmon slavic, this pronouncement is actually more applicable to vie language of the manuscripts than to that of the slavic apostles, although the former are chronologically younger than the latter. Old church slavonic grammar by horace g lunt goodreads. Cyrillic and glagolitic were used for the church slavonic language, especially the old church slavonic variant. Old church slavonic is the first literary and liturgical slavic language taken over by the 9th century missionaries saints cyril and methodius. You can do the exercises online or download the worksheet as pdf. Old church slavonic, also known as old church slavic often abbreviated to ocs. Old church slavonic online university of texas at austin. This course is an introduction to the structure of old church slavic and its. Old church slavonic may be characterized as a language reconstructed from certain manuscripts, and given lunt s relatively conservative selection, he states that, if the material were set up in.