MODERNIZACJA FORM IMPERATIVU NA PRZYKŁADZIE CERKIEWNOSŁOWIAŃSKICH DRUKOWANYCH TEKSTÓW EWANGELICZNYCH

The aim of the article is the imperative analysis of two Slavonic Gospels: the first complete printed edition of the Church Slavonic Bible – The Ostrog Bible (1581) and the18th century altar Gospel (1771) printed in Kiev Pechersk Lavra but kept in Orthodox monastery in Jabłeczna (south-east Poland). The comparison of these two texts on linguistic level permits to ascertain, that over two hundred years Church Slavonic imperative forms have changed. While The Ostrog Bible is settled in Cyrilo-Methodian writing tradition, the younger Jabłeczyńska Gospel presents modernization of imperative forms toward unification, reduction and avoiding homonymic conflict.