The Church Slavonic (Slavic) language was devised in the ninth century. Based on Old Bulgarian, it was created by the Greek missionary brothers Cyril and Methodius. As the first written Slavic language it has become the mother of all modern Slavic languages and continues in daily use in the services of the Slavic Orthodox Churches. (Russian, Bulgarian, Polish etc.) This is a comprehensive grammar of the Church Slavonic language, covering etymology, parts of speech, and syntax. This English edition was translated from the Russian and includes an explanation of grammatical points that would be taken for granted by a native Russian speaker. Long used as a seminary textbook both in North America and Russia, Archbishop Alypy's work is an absolutely unique publication in English and is essential for anyone desiring to study Church Slavonic, from beginning learner to advanced scholar. Texts for practice are largely drawn from the Gospels. This is both a unique and authoritative work.
Author(s): Alypy Gamanovich
Edition: Translation
Publisher: Holy Trinity Monastery
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 438
Tags: Church Slavonic, Church Slavic, Old Church Slavonic
Introduction
ETYMOLOGY
Concerning the Characters and Signs Used in Church Slavonic
§1. The Slavonic Alphabet
§2. The Use and Pronunciation of the Letters
§3. Signs Written Above the Letters
§4. Pronunciation Marks
§5. How Numbers are Represented in Slavonic
§6. Instructions for Reading in Church
The Sounds of Church Slavonic
§7. The Division of Sounds
§8. How Consonants Combine With Vowels
§9. Capitalization
§10. Vowel Alternations
Changes in Consonants
§11. The Softening of Consonants
§12. Changes of Consonants in Combinations
§13. Eliminations of Consonants
§14. Sound Patterns in Slavonic
§15-17. Word Structure
§18. Words Classified by Meaning
§19. The Forms of Words
PARTS OF SPEECH
The Noun [§20-44]
§24-31. The Formation of Nouns
§32. The Gender of Nouns
§33. The Declension of Nouns
§34. Models of the 1st Declension
§35. Notes on the Cases
§36. Orthographical Peculiarities of the Cases
§37-38. Peculiarities of the 1st Declension
§39. The 2nd Declension
§40. Peculiarities of the 2nd Declension
§41. The 3rd Declension
§42. The 4th Declension
§43. Models of the 4th Declension
§44. Peculiarities of the 4th Declension
Pronouns [§45-48]
§46. The Formation of Pronouns
§47-48. The Declension of Pronouns
The Adjective [§49-60]
§50-52. Formation of Adjectives
§53. Declension of Adjectives
§54. Concerning the Vocative Case of Adjectives
§54-56. Differences of Declension between Nouns and Short Adjectives
§57. The Declension of Full Adjectives
§58-59. Formation of the Degrees of Comparison
§60. Declension of Short Comparative Adjectives
Numerals [§61-70]
§62. The Declension of Simple Quantitative Numerals
§63. Formation of Compound Numerals
§64. Declension of Compound Quantitative Numerals
§65. Numerals used with Nouns
§66. Peculiarities in the Use of Compound Numbers with Nouns
§67. Exceptions in the Use of Nouns with Numerals
§68. Formations and Declension of Ordinals
§69. Collective Numerals
§70. Multiple and Fractional Numerals
Verbs [§71-104]
§71. The Verb in General
§72. Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
§73. Voices of the Verb
§74-77. Aspects of the Verb
§78. Moods of the Tenses
The Conjugation of Verbs [§79-93]
§79-81. General Information
The Indicative Mood [§82-90]
§82-83. Present Indicative
The Future Tense [§84-85]
The Past Tenses [§86-89]
§86. The Aorist
§87. The Imperfect (Transient)
§88. The Perfect (Completed Past)
§89. The Pluperfect (Distant Past)
§90. The Descriptive (Periphrastic) Form of Tenses
§91. The Subjunctive Mood
§92. The Optative Mood
§93. The Imperative Mood
§94. The Participle
§95-97. Active Present Participles
§98. Declension of the Active Participles
§99-100. Passive Participles
§101. Passive Forms of the Verb
§102. Passive Forms of the Tenses and Moods
§103. The Verbs of Archaic Conjugation
§104. Verbs Having Irregular Forms
The Adverb [§105-109]
§105. Adverbs in General
§106. Adverbs Formed from Various Declension Cases
§107. Adverbs from Pronoun Stems
§108. Adverbs Categorized by Meaning
§109. The Orthography of Adverbs
Prepositions [§110-112]
§111. Peculiarities in the Use of Prepositions
§112. Prepositions as Prefixes
Conjunctions [§113-116]
§114. Types of Conjunctions According to their Use
§116. Peculiarities in the Meaning of Certain Conjunctions. 242 Interjections [§117]
SYNTAX
§119. The Sentence
§120. Forms of Combination in a Sentence
§121. Combination of Words
The Simple Sentence
§122. The Subject
§123. The Predicate
§124. The Composite Nominal Predicate
§125. The Nominal Part of the Composite Predicate
§126. The Composite Verbal Predicate
§127. The Compound Predicate
§128. Agreement of the Predicate with the Subject
§129. Agreement of the Predicate with Several Subjects
§130. Attributes
§131. Apposition
§132. The Object
§133. Verb Objects
§134. Objects of Nouns and Adjectives
Peculiarities in the Use of the Cases to Express an Object (§135-140)
§141-142. Adjuncts [Circumstance]: Adverbial Modifiers
§143. The Use of the Infinitive
§144. Isolated Parts of the Sentence
§145. Circumstantial Attributes
§146. Circumstantial Participles
§147. Pleonastic Expressions
§148. Word Order in the Sentence
§149-150. The Postion of the Attribute in the Sentence
Use of the Negations «Hf» and «ни» [§151-152]
§153. Address
The Use of Tenses [§154-169]
§154. The Present Tense
§155. The Future Tense
§156. The Aorist
§157. The Imperfect (Past Continuous)
§158-159. The Perfect (Past Complete)
§160. Concerning the Forms бы^я, e/kz
§161. The Pluperfect (Distant Past)
§162. The Future Perfect (Preceding Future)
§163. The Descriptive (Periphrastic) Form of the Tenses
§164. Passive Forms
§ 165. The Present Tense and the Imperfect
§166. The Aorist
§167. The Perfect
§168. The Pluperfect
§169. The Future Tense, Subjunctive Mood, and the Imperative
§170. The Church Slavonic Article and Its Use
§171-172. The Use of the Short and Long Forms of Adjectives and Participles
The Main Sentence Types [§173-175]
§173. Types of Sentences According to the Nature of the Utterance
§174. Incomplete Sentences
§175. One-part Sentences
§176. Sentence Members of the Same Kind
The Compound Sentence [§177-203]
§177. General Observations on Compound Sentences
§178. Compound [Coordinate] Sentences
§179. Copulative Coordination
§180. Adversative Coordination
§181. Disjunctive Coordination
§182. Causative Coordination
§183. The Complex Sentence
§184. Subordinate Subject Clauses
§185. Subordinate Predicative Clauses
§186. Subordinate Adjectival [Attributive] Clauses
§187. Subordinate Clauses of Complement
§188. Subordinate Clauses of Time
§189. Subordinate Clauses of Place
§190. Subordinate Clauses of Reason
§191. Subordinate Clauses of Purpose
§192. Subordinate Clauses of Result
§193. Subordinate Clauses of Manner
§194. Subordinate Clauses of Condition
§195. Subordinate Clauses of Concession
§196. Short Subordinate Clauses
§197. The Dative Absolute
§198. Compound-Complex Sentences
§199. The Period
§200-202. Punctuation Marks in the Compound Sentence. 409 §203. Direct and Indirect Discourse
APPENDIX
The Structure of Liturgical Chants
CHRESTOMATHY: The Book of Acts, Chapters 1-3
A List of Books Cited
Bibliography
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