Zmiany funkcji znaczeniowych północnosłowiańskiego datiwu

The article focuses on the analysis of the North Slavic dative in its semantic (“specific” in the concepcion of Kuryłowicz and Heinz) functions. The examples are chosen from a few texts such as Old Russian Повесть временных лет or Old Polish Rozmyślanie przemyskie, Kodeks Działyńskich and other. I am exploring the meanings of dative from a traditional point of view, referring to such types as dativus commodi/incommodi, dativus possessivus, dativus finalis, dativus ethicus. The main aim of the article is to look at the phenomenon of the North Slavic dative from a diachronic perspective.