Greco-Slavic Index Verborum of the Cyrillo-Methodian Translation of The Gospels: A Discursive Article

Leszek Moszyński is a professor of Slavic Philology at Gdańsk University, Poland.Moszyński describes his work on a complete Greco-Slavic index verborum, including all words and all of their uses both in the Greek original text as well as the Slavic translation, in order to determine the translation techniques of SS. Cyril and Methodius as well as to reconstruct both the Greek variant of the Gospels used and the original version of the Slavic.Moszyński outlines the theoretical principles of his work (59-60), including discussion of specific areas where difficulties arise in the Greek and Slavic language systems: the article (61-62), the noun (62-63), the adjective (63), the verb (63-64). Moszyński gives examples of the dictionary entries for each part of speech (66-67) and then gives the statistical data on the parts of speech in Zographensis (67)