Altkirchenslavisch „яко и“ als Mittel des hypothetischen Vergleichs

Abstract

The paper discusses the semantics of the Old Church Slavonic syntactic compound “яко и”, which appears in translations regularly as equivalent of a Greek compound “comparison particle + καὶ” (e.g. ὅτι καὶ), but sometimes OCS “яко и” may also appear unrelated to an underlying Greek pattern. On the material of OCS Codex Marianus the paper documents all instances of “яко и” together with its Gr equivalents (2), compares the findings with similar use of “яко и” in other Church Slavonic texts (3) and formulates the hypothesis (4), that starting from OCS “яко и” took on the meaning of a hypothetical comparison (“as if ”).