The article deals with the attributive phrases in “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign” and its poetic versions of the XIX century created by V.A. Zhukovsky and A.N. Maikov. Studying the attribute in poetic interpretations show that the authors of translations in most cases follow the word order rules of the Old Russian text, but the metric pattern and rhythm of the new text make them combine the components of attributive phrases in a different way.

Words order in the Church Slavonic language is one of the controversial and debatable issues of the comparative historical linguistics. The article deals with the issue of the order of the components of a substantive and attributive phrase in the hagiographic texts of the XI-XIII centuries. The author studies the semantic and grammar features of the attribute both in two-component and three-component attributive constructions.