Overview of the Case System in Old Church Slavonic

Jan 27, 2015 by

Overview of the Case System in Old Church Slavonic

Old Church Slavonic (OCS) had six cases, plus the vocative form. For the endings in the various cases, declensions, genders, stem types and parts-of-speech, consult “OCS Declension Tables” or Lunt (2001: 52-80). When is each case...

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Introduction to Old Church Slavonic Declension

Jan 25, 2015 by

Introduction to Old Church Slavonic Declension

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...

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Dative Absolute Demystified

Jan 23, 2015 by

Dative Absolute Demystified

The Old Church Slavonic (OCS) passage from Matthew 14:6, contains a phrase whose structure may not be immediately clear: dьni že byvъšu roždьstva irodova, translated in the King James Version as “But when Herod’s birthday was...

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Expressing Possession in modern Russian—and Related Issues

Jan 22, 2015 by

Expressing Possession in modern Russian—and Related Issues

The situation in modern Russian is quite similar to what has been described for OCS in the previous post, that is, possessors can be expressed by one of two constructions: possessive adjectives or genitives. Due to their typical...

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Expressing Possession in Old Church Slavonic—and Related Issues

Jan 21, 2015 by

Expressing Possession in Old Church Slavonic—and Related Issues

In Old Church Slavonic (OCS), there were two ways to express possession (loosely defined)—and modern Russian, as we shall see in the following post, is not very different. The first way of expressing possession in OCS involved the...

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