Regier P. A Learner's Guide to the Old Church Slavic Language. Part 1: Grammar with Exercises

München: Verlag Otto Sagner, 1977. — xliv, 370 p. — (Slavistische Beiträge. Band 109). — ISBN: 3-87690-130-8.This book is intended as a guide for those who wish to learn a language which is important for comparative Slavic studies (in order to facilitate subsequent study of more than one of the Slavic languages, just as Latin facilitates study of the Romance languages), for an understanding of the Church Slavic element of Russian (as important as the Latin element in English) , or for comparative Indo-European studies. The approach taken is that of generative grammar, which provides for the most cohesive and precise formulation of the principles of a language, enabling the student to learn the language from the inside out.
It is suggested that learners with no prior knowledge of either linguistics or the grammar of another Slavic language read the Introduction carefully. In an effort to make the book as nearly self-teaching as possible I have included in the Introduction definitions of some of the most elementary linguistic terminology, as well as information on the prehistory of OCS and the particular linguistic approach taken in this book. Learners already familiar with the structure of Russian and who have the active aid of an instructor should be able to start Chapter I and the reading of Old Church Slavic texts immediately. For such students this book will gradually build an active knowledge of the underlying structure of Old Church Slavic and reinforce their understanding of the struetur of Russian.