| This dissertation examines the various constructions available to Old Church Slavonic (OCS) to express time. These include the five cases (accusative (ACC), genitive (GEN), dative (DAT), locative (LOC) and instrumental (INS)) as well as numerous prepositional constructions and adverbial phrases to express different temporal frames. The prepositional constructions which express time are: ez + ACC, Na + ACC, no + ACC, osz + ACC; MEwAOY + INS; Kz + DAT; ez + LOC, Na + LOC, no + LOC, npH + LOC; and otz, cz and H3z + GEN, Ao + GEN, nptwAE + GEN, 3a + GEN, and ez + GEN. In each individual chapter I discuss the meaning(s) of the construction under discussion, demonstrate with examples which nouns could occur in each construction, and give the Greek equivalent(s) for each construction. The meanings of the Greek constructions will be discussed as they arise in conjunction with the OCS constructions, but not separately, as the goal of this dissertation is to establish an OCS syntax, not Greek.;With rare exception, where meaning converged in the two languages, form diverged. Thus, by demonstrating how the form in OCS diverged from that of the Greek, I intend to show that in the translated texts, meaning took precedence over form, and that therefore the syntax of OCS as found in the canonical manuscripts represents the living Slavic idiom and is not merely translation syntax of the Greek.;The following temporal frames are expressed by the various constructions: (1) the time at which an action occurs, which may be a time which is not completely filled by the given action, or the time during a segment of which or at one point within the boundaries of which an action takes place or begins; (2) a time completely filled by an action; (3) a time completely filled by an action with emphasis on the duration of the action throughout the entire period in question; (4) a time within which an action is completed; (5) a time since which an action occurs; (6) a time before which an action occurs; (7) a time after which an action occurs; (8) a time until which an action occurs; (9) a time around which an action occurs; (10) a time for which or up to which an action continues; (11) a time for which an action is repeated or intended to last; (12) a time between which two actions occur; (13) a time towards which an action occurs; or (14) a repeated action.;I have chosen six canonical OCS manuscripts as sources for this dissertation, as well as three non-canonical manuscripts. The three non-canonical manuscripts represent the earliest written stages of three recensions of Church Slavonic: the Ostromirovo evangelie, an 11th-century Russian Church Slavonic Aprakos Gospel, the Miroslavljevo evangelie, a late 12th-century Serbian Church Slavonic Aprakos Gospel, and the Dobromirovo evangelie, a 12-14th-century Bulgarian/Macedonian Church Slavonic Tetragospel. I examined these manuscripts to see both how their syntax differed from and how it was similar to the syntax seen in the canonical manuscripts. I did not use them to draw conclusions, but only as supporting evidence. The canonical manuscripts examined are: Codex Assemanianus evangeliaria and Savvina Kniga, both Aprakos Gospels, Codex Marianus tetraevangelia and Codex Zographensis tetraevangelia, both Tetragospels, Glogolitica Clozianus, a collection of homilies, and Codex Suprasliensis, a Menaion for the month of March with sermons for Holy Week and Easter. |
