Ways of Translating Polish Predicative Past Passive Participles into Old Church Slavonic in “Ecclesiastical Annals” of the 17th Century

The paper analyzes ways to translate Polish predicative past passive participles in “Ecclesiastical Annals” into Church Slavonic in the rendition of 1689. As the analysis of the material has shown, the text shows an orientation towards Church Slavonic tradition, syntactic Greekization, adherence to grammatical norms recorded by M. Smotritsky. This is evidenced by the widespread use of the aorist and imperfect to translate polish -no/-to forms, for which there was a better analogue in the living language, of the bookish construction да + praes., of the construction infinitive + subject in Dat., which was a syntactic Greekism, of the long forms of the past passive participles. At the same time living language elements, which corresponded to Polish forms, are poorly reflected in the Church Slavonic text. The use of the past passive participle with the auxiliary in present tense with the aorist meaning, that missed both in Old Church Slavonic and living language, is fixed in the translation of “Annals”. This is apparently due to the fixation of these forms in the grammar of M. Smotritsky. To identify specific features of the translation of 1648, the material is compared with another Church Slavonic translation of 1719. The comparison allows us to conclude that the translation of 1689 was more bookish-oriented. Thus, there are no bookish constructions да + praes and infinitive + subject in Dat. and predicative long forms of the past passive participles in the text of 1719. On the contrary, the use of past passive participles typical for the living language of that period is presented widely in this translation.

Church Slavonic of the 17^th century, translation from Polish, past passive participle, Greekization, syntactic calques, Chudov school of translation, Ecclesiastical Annals