THE USE OF DEMONSTRATIVE PRONOUNS SЬ, TЪ, ONЪ IN CODEX ZOGRAPHENSIS

 The three demonstrative pronouns in Old Church Slavonic, in contradistinction to the same pronouns in reconstructed Common Slavic, were already in no way connected to the participants of a dialogue. The attributive pronoun sь usually indicates a present object in the centre of attention, whereas the pronoun tъ indicates an absent object and functions anaphorically. The pronoun onъ is used only in idiomatic constructions — e.g.na onъ polъ. The pronouns used as substantives have two functions — one deictic and the other as a third-person marker. Their nominative fully replaced the nominative of the pronoun *jь/ja/je. The pronoun sь reserved its deictic function in dialogue, but all three pronouns had an anaphoric function, though only in combination with different conjunctions — a sь, i sь, i tъ, onъ že. The forms of oblique cases are used when several objects stood in opposition to one another; otherwise, the oblique cases of the pronoun * jь/ja/je are preserved.