Old Church Slavonic (continuation)

elective courses
general courses

The aim of the class is to continue familiarizing the students with Old Church Slavonic grammar, including its relations with Proto-Slavic and other Slavonic languages. Prerequisites: the students should know basic OCS grammar.

Classroom

Individual meetings will be devoted to:

Morphology: affixes; the root in Indo-European and Proto-Slavic. OCS declension (nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals). The verb: PIE and OCS inflections; verb roots, grammatical aspect; modes, tenses; the infinitive and the supinum; participles.

Indeclinabilia.

Important specific qualities of OCS syntax in context of Slavonic languages.

Once the grammar are covered, further meetings will be devoted to text analysis.

Reading list:

- Cz. Bartula, Podstawowe wiadomości z gramatyki staro-cerkiewno-słowiańskiej, Warsaw 2000 (or later editions)

- Gramatyka języka staro-cerkiewno-słowiańskiego, ed. H. Karaś, Warsaw: WPol. UW 1994

- L. Leciejewicz (ed.), Mały słownik kultury dawnych Słowian, Warsaw 1972

Optional reading:

- other works of choice discussing Old Church Slavonic in Polish

- H. Dalewska-Greń, Języki słowiańskie, Warsaw 1997

- R. Aitzetmüller, Altbulgarische Grammatik als Einführung in die slavische Sprachwissenschaft, Freiburg 1978

- L. Moszyński, Wstęp do filologii słowiańskiej, Warsaw 1984

- G. A. Chaburgajev, Staroslavjanskij jazyk, Moscow 1986

- S. Stojanov, M. Janakiev, Starobâlgarski ezik. Tekstove i rečnik, Sofia 1978

- R. Večerka, Staroslověnština, Prague 1984

- L. Bednarczuk (ed.), Języki indoeuropejskie, vol. II, Warsaw 1986

- T. Lehr-Spławiński, W. Kuraszkiewicz, F. Sławski, Przegląd i charakterystyka języków słowiańskich, Warsaw 1954

- etymological dictionaries in individual Slavonic languages

Having completed the course, the students should be able to: translate an OCS text, know the rules of simplified and phonetic transcription, perform a morphological analysis of given words; reconstruct Proto-Slavic forms.

Upon course completion, the students should additionally be able to:

- critically approach various research methods and theses included in theoretical texts,

- use research methods pertaining to various disciplines within the scope of humanities and form a well-grounded synthesis thereof as part of a multi-aspect study in culture and language of a selected Slavic country,

- be aware of the complexities of the nature of a language as well as the shifting of meanings throughout history.

Attendance (2 absences max.) – 30%

In-class participation – 10 %

Final written assignment - 60 %

Not available.