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. The facts have been treated from the point of view of structural linguistics, but pedagogical clarity has taken precedence over the conciseness required for elegant formal description.
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Lunt is the Standard Reference Grammar for Old Church Slavonic,
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This is the standard classic grammar in English for Old Church Slavonic. The work is short (143 pages) but well organized and nicely setup. The charts of declensions and conjugations are clean and well done. The discussion of points is brief, but all are illustrated with specific examples.
This is designed to be a short reference grammar for the Old Church Slavonic language itself, not a comparative study or tool. This is a helpful tool for those studying Old Church Slavonic. If your interest is liturgical, the better choice in English is Father Shaw's translation of Gamanovich's Grammar of liturgical Church Slavonic.
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Very good OCS grammar,
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Lunt's book is exactly what he described it to be. He never said it's a study in comparative linguistic or a "how to" textbook, but a reference grammar. And a pretty good one. His tables and charts are well organized and provide a nice summary and reference to OCS grammar. I also like the fact that he included a section on syntax, something badly missing in most grammar books. I do wish he included more examples of actual text beyond just a simple phrase, but that's just my personal preference. His examples are sufficient to illustrate the principle discussed.
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This is a classic in its field. There is no other work in English which I'm aware of which is as exhaustive as Lunt. There is at least one written in pre-1917 Russian which may be better, but none in English. Although used, which I knew before I ordered the book, the copy sent to me is in good shape and I am very satisfied.
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Old Church Slavonic is the name given to the language of the oldest Slavic manuscripts, which date from the tenth or eleventh century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
twofold nominal, unblocked position, liquid diphthongs, regressive palatalization, progressive palatalization, zero desinence, strong jer, past active participle, pronominal declension, nasal diphthongs, basic stems, verbal substantive, past passive participle, prefixed forms, thematic vowel, front vowel, palatal consonant, active participles, attested forms, singular dual plural, compound tenses, modern dialects, nasal vowels, present stem, few verbs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
East Slavic, South Slavic, Old Church Slavonic, Late Common Slavic, North Slavic, Kiev Folia, Middle Common Slavic, Present Imperative Sing, Imperfect Aorist Sing, Old Czech, Vowel Raising, East Slavs, Euchologium Sinaiticum, Josef Kurz, Nom Acc, Old High German, Old Testament, Vowel Adjustment New!
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Old Church Slavonic is the name given to the language of the oldest Slavic manuscripts, which date from the tenth or eleventh century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
twofold nominal, unblocked position, liquid diphthongs, regressive palatalization, progressive palatalization, zero desinence, strong jer, past active participle, pronominal declension, nasal diphthongs, basic stems, verbal substantive, past passive participle, prefixed forms, thematic vowel, front vowel, palatal consonant, active participles, attested forms, singular dual plural, compound tenses, modern dialects, nasal vowels, present stem, few verbs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
East Slavic, South Slavic, Old Church Slavonic, Late Common Slavic, North Slavic, Kiev Folia, Middle Common Slavic, Present Imperative Sing, Imperfect Aorist Sing, Old Czech, Vowel Raising, East Slavs, Euchologium Sinaiticum, Josef Kurz, Nom Acc, Old High German, Old Testament, Vowel Adjustment New!
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