Research on the transition from Old Church Slavonic in its Russian version to the Old Russian literary language in its embryonic stage

我们的目标是研究处于萌芽阶段的古俄语文学语言。为此，我们研究俄文版的《旧教会斯拉夫语》是很有用的。在抄写旧教会斯拉夫语文本时，早期的俄罗斯文学家有时会偏离旧教会斯拉夫语的规范，而倾向于从他们的母语中提取类似的形式。通过这种方式，古俄语特征被引入到旧教会斯拉夫语原稿的拼写和语法系统中。我们在阿尔汉格尔福音书中收集了许多古俄语特征的例子。与奥斯特罗密尔的福音书相比，阿尔汉格尔福音书有相当多的这样的例子。例证表明，《阿尔汉格尔福音书》不是原文的字面复制品，而是按照旧教会斯拉夫语模式编写的古俄文译本，因此，《阿尔汉格尔福音书》必须被认为包含了古俄语文学语言的雏形。

We are aiming at researching the Old Russian literary language in its embryonic stage. For this purpose it is useful for us to investigate Old Church Slavonic in its Russian version. When copying Old Church Slavonic texts, early Russian men of letters sometimes deviated from the norms of Old Church Slavonic in favor of analogous forms drawn from their native speech. In this way Old Russian features were introduced into the orthography and grammatical system of the Old Church Slavonic originals.We gathered many examples of Old Russian features in the Arkhangel Gospel Book. The Arkhangel Gospel Book proved to have a rather large number of such examples as compared with Ostromir's Gospel Book. And the examples are found not only in the orthography and grammatical system but also in vocabulary.The examples demonstrate that the Arkhangel Gospel Book is not a literal facsimile of the original text but an Old Russian version composed on Old Church Slavonic models, and, accordingly, the Arkhangel Gospel Book must be considered to include an embryo of Old Russian literary language in it.