L571: Old Church Slavic
Finding books and aritlces on OCS:
• Browsing books on OCS in the Wells Library:
Call number range PG601-716 (located on 5th floor of the Wells Library)
• Browsing books on OCS stored in ALF in IUCAT:
Conduct “Call Number Search” by typing in “PG601” with the “Library” field set to “Blmgtn – Auxiliary Library Facility”
• Finding books (titles, not full-text) on OCS in IUCAT, WorldCat, or The European Library, a comprehensive union catalog of European library collections:
Use subject heading “Old Church Slavic” or “Old Church Slavonic”
• Finding English articles and books on OCS in ABSEES (American bibliography of Slavic and East European studies), Academic Search, MLA international bibliography:
Use subject heading “Old Church Slavic”
• Finding English full-text articles in JSTOR:
Use subject heading “Old Church Slavic” (enclosed in quotation marks) in the “item title” or “abstract” fields
• Finding Russian articles on OCS in UDB, a full-text database of Russian newspapers and journals, and Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies, the online catalog of INION:
Use subject headings “staroslavianskii iazyk” or “tserkovnoslavianskii iazyk”
• Finding Russian books on OCS in SKBR (Svodnyi katalog bibliotek Rossii), Russia’s most
comprehensive union library catalog combining more than 500 Russian libraries including the Russian State Library and the Russian National Library:
Use keyword “старославянский язык” or “церковнославянский язык”
• Finding full-text digitized publications on OCS in Europeana, a search engine for digital collections of Europe, or World Digital Library, an international digital library:
Use keyword “Old Church Slavic”
OCS transliteration table
For a successful search of publications in IUCAT, WorldCat, and many other North American databases, you may have to use the LC transliteration system.
Online resources
Biblioteka frontistesa: Collection of primary texts, dictionaries, research publications related to Old Church Slavic and other ancient Slavic literary works.
Etimologiia i istoriia slov russkogo iazyka: One of the digital libraries of Institut Russkogo Iazyka RAN focusing on texts related to etymology and history of the Russian language.
Kodeks: Portal of broad range of resources pertaining to Slavic culture and literature. One of the two sections is devoted to medieval age, with facsimile images of OCS texts.
Lingvokul'turologicheskii tezaurus "Gumanitarnaia Rossiia" : Teaching and study aid for university courses on Russian literature and language developed by the Philology Faculty of MGU.
Manuskript : Digital collection of primary texts of ancient and medieval Slavdom developed by Udmurt State University and Izhevsk State Technical University.
Polnyi tserkovno-slavianskii slovar' s vneseniem v nego vazhneishikh drevnerusskikh slov i vyrazhenii: Online dictionary of OCS based on G. D’iachenko’s (Polnyi tserkovno-slavianskii …), O. Sedakova’s (Tserkovnoslaviano-russkie paronimy), and A. Kravetskii’s (Tserkovnoslavianskii iazyk).
Rukopisnye pamiatniki Drevnei Rusi: Digital collection ancient Russian texts developed by Insitut Russkogo Iazyka RAN and publisher Iazyki Slavianskikh Kul’tur.
Sankt-Peterburgskoe Obshchestvo Vizantino-Slavianskikh Issledovanii: Portal of resources pertaining to Byzantine and ancient Slavic studieds developed by the “SPb Obshchestvo Vizantino-Slavianskikh Issledovanii.” It includes a digital collection related to paleoslavistika.
Skat (Sankt-Peterburgskii Korpus Agiograficheskikh Tekstov): Digital collection of ancient Russian hagiographic literature developed by Philology Faculty of SPb University.
Staroslavianskii iazyk: Entry for OCS of Literaturnaia entsiklopediia (Moscow, 1929-1939).
Staroslavianskii iazyk tserkovnoslavianskii iazyk kak pozdnii variant staroslavianskogo: Comprehensive reference guide to Slavs in general with a section on OCS.
Sviato-Troitskaia Sergieva Lavra: Official website of Holy Trinity St. Sergius Monastery. Section Rukopisi provides access to more than 4,000 ancient Russian manuscripts, most of them from Russian State Library.
Old Church Slavonic Online: Base Form Dictionary: OCS dictionary maintained at University of Texas.
Old Church Slavonic Online: English Meaning Index: English-OCS dictionary maintained at Unviersity of Texas.
Old Church Slavonic Online: Master Glossary: OCS glossary maintained at University of Texas.
Periodicals to look into for OCS-related publications
Canadian Slavonic papers (1956- )
International journal of Slavic linguistics and poetics (1959-2003)
Language (1925- )
Russian linguistics (1974- )
Russkii iazyk v nauchnom osveshchenii (2001- )
Slavianodevenie (1992- )
The Slavic and East European journal (1957- )
Slavic review (1961- )
The Slavonic and East European review (1943- )
Voprosy iazykoznaniia (1952- )
Research institutes and organizations related to OCS in Russia
Nauchnyi Tsentr po Izucheniiu Tserkovnoslavianskogo Iazyka Instituta Russkogo Iazyka im. V. V. Vinogradova RAN: A section that specializes in the Church Slavic within Institut Russkogo Iazyka, RAN
Otdel Drevnerusskoi Literatury Instituta Russkoi Literatury (Pushkinskogo Doma) RAN
Bibliographies
Textbooks
Elkina, Nina Maksimovna. Staroslavianskii iazyk: Ucheb. posobie dlia studentov
filologicheskikh fakulʹtetov pedagog. in-tov i univ. Moskva: Gos. Uchebno-Pedagog. Izd-vo,
1960.
Mironova, T. L. Tserkovnoslavianskii iazyk. M. Izd. Sovet Rus. Pravosl. Tserkvi, 2009.
Pletneva, A. A. and A. G. Kravetskii. Tserkovnoslavianskii iazyk uchebnik dlia voskresnykh
(Prikhodskikh) shkol, pravoslav. gimnazii i litseev. Moskva: Drevo dobra, 2001.
Polivanov, Lev. Russkaia i tserkovno-slavianskaia etimologiia dlia srednikh uchebnykh
zavedenii. Moskva: Gos. Publ. Ist. B-ka Rossii, 1997.
Remneva, M. L. and O. V. Dedova. Staroslavianskii Iazyk: Uchebnoe Posobie. Moskva: Akademicheskii proekt, 2004.
Schmalstieg, William R. An introduction to Old Church Slavic. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica
Publishers, 1983.
Selishchev, Afanasii Matveevich. Staroslavianskii iazyk v dvukh chastiakh. Moskva: URSS,
2001.
Dictionaries
Alekseev, A. A. and A. S. Gerd. Slovar' staroslavianskogo iazyka. SPb: Izdatel'stvo Sankt-
Peterburgskogo Un-ta, 2006.
D’iachenko, G. Polnyi tserkovno-slavianskii slovar’ (S vneseniem v nego vazhneishikh drevne-
russkikh slov i vyrazhenii): Ok. 30000 slov. Moskva: Otchii Dom, 2000.
Likhachev, Dmitrii Sergeevich. Slovar’ knizhnikov i knizhnosti v Drevnei Rusi. Leningrad: Izd-
vo "Nauka", Leningradskoe Otd-nie, 1987.
Lunt, Horace G. Old Church Slavonic glossary. Cambridge, MS: Department of Slavic
Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, 1959.
Lysaght, T. A. Material towards the compilation of a concise Old Church Slavonic-English
Dictionary. Wellington: Victoria University Press with Price Milburn, 1978.
———. Old Church Slavonic-English dictionary. [Australia?]: T. A. Lysaght, 1995.
Sedakova, Ol'ga. Slovar' trudnykh slov iz bogosluzheniia: Tserkovnoslaviano-russkie paronimy.
Moskva: Greko-latinskii kabinet Iu. A. Shichalina, 2008.
Shulezhkova, S. G. Frazeologicheskii slovar' staroslavianskogo iazyka: Svyshe 500 edinits.
Moskva: Izd-vo "Flinta" and "Nauka", 2011.
Tseitlin, R. M. and Radoslav Bláhová Emilie Vecerka. Staroslavianskii slovar’ (Po rukopisiam
X-Xi vekov). Moskva: "Russkii iazyk", 1994.
Vasmer, Max. Etimologicheskii slovar’ russkogo iazyka v chetyrekh tomakh. Moskva:
"Progress", 1986.
Grammar
Alipii, Ieromonakh. Grammatika tserkovno-slavianskogo iazyka. SPb: AOA "S.-Peterb. tip. 6,
1997.
Gardiner, S. C. Old Church Slavonic: An elementary grammar. Cambridge; New York:
Cambridge University Press, 1984.
Khaburgaev, Georgii Aleksandrovich. Staroslavianskiĭ iazyk. Moskva: "Prosveshchenie", 1986.
Lunt, Horace G. Old Church Slavonic grammar. The Hague: Mouton, 1974.
Nandris, Grigore. Old Church Slavonic grammar. London; Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Athlone
Press, 1988.
Regier, Philip Jr. A learner's guide to the Old Church Slavic language. Munchen: Otto Sagner, 1977.
Vostokov, A. Kh. Grammatika tserkovno-slovenskago iazyka izlozhennaia po drevneishim
onago pisʹmennym pamiatnikam. Leipzig: Zentralantiquariat DDR, 1980. [reprint of 1863
original]
Research publications
Alekseev, A. A. “Puti stabilizatsii iazykovoi normy v Rossii XI-XVI vv.” Voprosy iazykoznaniia 2 (1987): 34-46.
Ambrosiani, Per. On Church Slavonic accentuation: The accentuation of a Russian Church
Slavonic gospel manuscript from the fifteenth century. Stockholm: Almquist & Wiksell
International, 1991.
Bobrik, M. A. “Osnovnye etapy knizhnoi spravy v Rossii v XI-XVII vv.” Voprosy iazykoznaniia, 4 (1990): 61-85.
Borin, Lars. "A computer model of sound change: An example from Old Church Slavic."
Literary and linguistic computing: Journal of the Association for Literary and Linguistic
Computing 3, no. 2 (1988): 105-08.
Brooks, Maria Zagorska. "Some parallel syntactic constructions in Old Church Slavic and
Polish." In Slavic linguistics and language teaching, edited by Thomas F. Magner. 232-39.
Cambridge, MA: Slavica, 1976.
Collins, Daniel E. "The pragmatics of indirect speech in Old Church Slavonic and other early
Slavic writings." In Studies in South Slavic and Balkan linguistics, edited by A. A. Barentsen, B.
M. Groen, J. Shacken, and R. Sprenger. Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics (SSGL): 23,
21-86. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996.
Darden, Bill J. "On the prehistory of the Slavic nonindicative." Balkanistica 10 (1997): 81-94.
Dingley, John. "Committing adultery in Old Church Slavonic." International journal of Slavic
linguistics and poetics 41 (1997): 105-18.
Durnovo, N. N. “Mysli i predpolozheniia o proiskhozhdenii staroslavianskogo iazyka i slavianskikh alfavitov.” In Izbrannye raboty po istorii russkogo iazyka. 566-612. 2000.
Farrall, Melissa Lee. "A Jewish translator in Kievan Rus': A critical edition and study of the
earliest redaction of the Slavic "Life of Moses." Thesis/dissertation (deg), [s.n.], 1981.
Farrugia, Edward G., Taft Robert F., and Piovesana Gino K. Christianity among the Slavs: The
heritage of Saints Cyril and Methodius: Acts of the international congress held on the eleventh
centenary of the death of St. Methodius, Rome, October 8-11, 1985, under the direction of the
Pontifical Oriental Institute. Roma: Pont. Institutum Studiorum Orientalium, 1988.
Ferrell, James. "The history of the Slavic imperfect tense with particular reference to the
developments in Old Church Slavic, Slovene and East Slavic." Die Welt der Slaven 19-20 (1974):
37-63.
———. "On the morphophonemic problems of the Old Church Slavic imperfect kþhvneaše. I.
The problem of its conjugation class." Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue Canadienne des
Slavistes 5 (1962): 54-61.
Flier, Michael S. Aspects of nominal determination in Old Church Slavic. The Hague: Mouton,
1974.
Floria, B. N. Skazaniia O nachale slavianskoi pisʹmennosti. SPb: Aleteiia, 2000.
Harris, Gary L. "A historical study of ablaut in common Slavic, Old Church Slavonic, and
Russian." PhD dissertation. The Ohio State University, 1971.
Ivanova, T. A. “O nazvaniiakh slavianskikh bukv i o poriadke ikh v alfavite.” Voprosy iazykoznaniia 6 (1969): 48-55.
Khaburgaev, G. A. „Staroslavianskii – tserkovnoslavianskii – russkii literaturnyi” in Istoriia russkogo iazyka v drevneishii period. 5-35. Moskva: Izd-vo Moskovskogo Un-ta, 1985.
Khodova, K. I. Prostoe predlozhenie v staroslavianskom iazyke. Moskva: Nauka, 1980.
Lofgren, Gary William. "A semantic analysis of Old Church Slavonic loanwords in
contemporary standard Russian." PhD dissertation. Indiana University, 1995.
Lycyk, G. M. Old Church Slavic as a religious cult language. Winnipeg: UVAN, 1953.
Maher, John P. "The etymology of Old Church Slavic zanozije 'sinus (maris)' and the question of
Greek inspiration of Slavic parasyntheta." Balkansko ezikoznanie/Linguistique balkanique 14, no.
2 (1970): 37-39.
Mareš, František Václav. "The importance of Old Church Slavonic for modern Slavic studies."
Slavia: Casopis pro slovanskou filologii 62, no. 1 (1993): 3-7.
Mathiesen, Robert. "A new analytic form of the Old Church Slavonic verb: The imperative
perfect." In For Henry Kucera: Studies in Slavic Philology and Computational Linguistics,
edited by Andrew W. Mackie, Tatyana K. McAuley, and Cynthia Simmons. 287-98. Ann Arbor,
MI: Michigan Slavic Publications, 1992.
Moldovan, A. M. „Leksicheskaia evoliutsiia v tserkovnoslavianskom.” In Slavianskoe iazykoznanie: XIII mezhdunarodnyi s”ezd slavistov: Liubliana, 2003 g.: Doklady rossiiskoi delegatsii. 395-413. Moskva: Indrik. 2003.
Olander, Thomas. "Proto-Indo-European final nasals in Slavic." Scando-Slavica 56, no. 1 (2010):
84-98.
Orlov, Andrei A. Selected studies in the Slavonic pseudepigrapha. Leiden: Boston, 2009.
Pauls, John P. "The Old Church Slavic Lord's Prayer as expressed in the Polissian dialect."
Wiener Slavistisches Jahrbuch 19 (1973): 14-16.
Remneva, M. L. Puti razvitiia russkogo literaturnogo iazyka XI-XVII vv. Moskva: Izd-vo
Moskovskogo universiteta, 2003.
Schmalstieg, William R. "Old Church Slavic bojati sė and Lithuanian bijóti." Slavic and East
European journal 4 (1960): 44-45.
______. "On the use of ablaut as a criterion in determining loan-words in Baltic and Slavic." The
Slavic and East European journal 1, no. 4 (1957): 280-83.
______. "Some comments on Old Church Slavic děti and běžati." Annali Istituto Orientale,
Napoli, Seminario di Studi dell'Europa Orientale 2 (1960): 103-06.
Shevelov, George Y. "Trǔt- type groups and the problem of Moravian components in Old
Church Slavic." Slavonic and East European review 35 (1957): 379-98.
Smith, Nancy S. "Three Old Church Slavic verb classifications based on the present stem from
Schleicher, Leskien and Jagić." Anzeiger für Slavische Philologie 22, no. 2 (1994): 37-51.
Tedesco, P. "Slavic ne-presents from older je-presents." Language: Journal of the linguistic
Society of America 24, no. 4 (1948): 346-87.
Thompson, Fr. "Towards a typology of errors in Slavonic translations.” In Christianity among the Slavs : the heritage of Saints Cyril and Methodius : acts of the international congress held on the eleventh centenary of the death of St. Methodius, Rome, October 8-11, 1985, under the direction of the Pontifical Oriental Institute. 351-380. Roma: Pont. Institutum Studiorum Orientalium, 1988.
Tolstoi, N. I. "K voprosu o drevneslavianskom iazyke kak obshchem literaturnom iazyke iuzhnykh i vostochnykh slavian.” Voprosy iazykoznaniia 1 (1961): 52-66.
Ukhanova, E. V. U istokov slavianskoi pis’mennosti. Moskva: Muravei, 1998.
Uspenskiĭ, Boris Andreevich. Istoriia russkogo literaturnogo iazyka (XI-XVII vv.). München: O.
Sagner, 1987.
Vereshchagin, E. M. Istoriia vozniknoveniia drevnego obshcheslavianskogo literaturnogo
iazyka: Perevodcheskaia deiatelʹnostʹ Kirilla i Mefodiia i ikh uchenikov. Moskva: Martis, 1997.
Vinogradov, V. V. Istoriiia russkogo literaturnogo iazyka: Izbrannye trudy. Moskva: Nauka,
1978.
Wakasch, Charles. "A rule-collapsing problem in late proto-Slavic and Old Church Slavic."
Papers in linguistics 9, no. 1-2 (1976): 161-71.
Watkins, Calvert. "Old Church Slavic jar': Greek zōrós." International journal of Slavic
linguistics and poetics 5 (1962): 136-37.
Winokur, Marshall. "An orthographical study of toponyms and names of inhabitants in Old
Church Slavic." PhD dissertation. University of Penn, 1973.
Worth, Dean S. "The determined adjective in Old Church Slavonic." In For Henry Kucera:
Studies in Slavic philology and computational linguistics, edited by Andrew W. Mackie, Tatyana
K. McAuley, and Cynthia Simmons. 421-35. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan Slavic Publications,
1992.
Zhivov, V. M. “Osobennosti retseptsii vizantiiskoi kul’tury v Drevnei Rusi.” In Iz istorii russkoi kul’tury, edited by V. Ia. Petrukhin, et al, v.1, 586-617. Moskva: Shkola "Iazyki Russkoi Kul’tury", 1996.
______. “Pravila i proiznovenie v russkom tserkovnoslavianskom pravopisanii XI-XIII v.” Russian linguistics 8, no. 3 (1984): 251-293.
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