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The Dawn of Slavic: An Introduction to Slavic Philology (Yale Language Series)
June 26, 1996, Yale University Press
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The dawn of Slavic: an introduction to Slavic philology
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Table of Contents
Contents … vii
List of maps … xiii
Preface … xv
Note on transliteration and abbreviations … xix
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1. HISTORICAL SETTING
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— 1.1 In search of roots … 1
— 1.2 The autochthonous theory … 1
— 1.3 Material culture and language … 2
— 1.4 Were the Veneti Slavic … 3
— 1.5 Evidence of place and river names … 5
— 1.6 Classical sources … 5
— 1.7 Médos and strava … 6
— 1.8 The Danubian and mid-Dnieper theories … 6
— 1.9 The Indo-European homeland … 8
— 1.10 The Great Migrations. Jordanes’ testimony … 9
— 1.11 The Avars … 9
— 1.12 Constantinople and Christianity … 11
— 1.13 Europe after the Great Migrations … 12
— 1.14 Christianization of the Goths and of other Germanic tribes … 13
— 1.15 Christianization of the Celts and Anglo-Saxons … 13
— 1.16 The Franks … 14
— 1.17 Charlemagne and the Papacy … 14
— 1.18 The Slavs in the Balkans. Procopius’ testimony … 15
— 1.19 John of Ephesus’ testimony … 16
— 1.20 Emperor Maurice’s Strategikon … 16
— 1.21 Theophylact Simocatta’s History … 17
— 1.22 The siege of Constantinople in 626. The Paschal Chronicle … 18
— 1.23 The Croats and Serbs. Constantine Porphyrogenitus’ testimony … 19
— 1.24 The Bulgars. Theophanes the Confessor’s testimony … 19
— 1.25 Christianity among the Balkan Slavs … 21
— 1.26 Samo’s Slavic state in central Europe. Fredegar’s testimony … 21
— 1.27 The Alpine Slavs. Paul the Deacon’s testimony … 22
— 1.28 The Carantanian mission. The testimony of the Conversion Bagoariorum et Carantanorum … 23
— 1.29 The Aquileian mission. The Gospel of Cividale … 24
— 1.30 Moravia and Pannonia in the ninth century … 25
— 1.31 The Cyrillo-Methodian sources … 26
— 1.32 The early careers of Constantine and Methodius … 28
— 1.33 The mission to the Khazars … 29
— 1.34 The background of the Moravian mission … 30
— 1.35 The Constantinian period … 32
— 1.36 The Methodian period … 34
— 1.37 The testimony of papal correspondence … 36
— 1.38 Was the Moravian mission Byzantine or Roman? … 40
— 1.39 The Moravian debacle … 41
— 1.40 The legacy of the Moravian mission in Bulgaria … 42
— 1.41 From Moravia to Bohemia … 43
— 1.42 The northwestern Slavs. The testimony of Frankish and Saxon chronicles … 46
— 1.43 Religious beliefs of the northwestern Slavs as reported by Thietmar and Helmold … 48
— 1.44 Poland … 50
— 1.45 The eastern Slavs … 53
— 1.46 The Norsemen in eastern Europe … 54
— 1.47 The terms Rus’ and Russian … 57
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2. LANGUAGE … 61
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— 2.1 The historical comparative method and the concept of the proto-language … 61
— 2.2 Linguistic reconstruction and phonetic laws … 63
— 2.3 Indo-European languages and Proto-Indo-European … 65
— 2.4 Survey of the Indo-European languages … 66
— 2.5 Periodization of Proto-Slavic … 69
— 2.6 The problem of Balto-Slavic … 70
— 2.7 Survey of the Slavic languages … 70
— 2.8 Problems in phonological reconstruction … 75
— 2.9 Late Proto-Indo-European phonemic system … 77
— 2.10 Laryngeals … 77
— 2.11 Proto-Indo-European ablaut … 78
— 2.12 Loss of aspiration … 79
— 2.13 Treatment of velar stops … 80
— 2.14 Retroflexion of s … 80
— 2.15 Merger of ō and ā … 81
— 2.16 Phonemic inventory of Early Proto-Slavic … 82
— 2.17 Constraints on syllabic structure … 82
— 2.18 Elimination of word-final consonants … 82
— 2.19 Resolution of syllable-initial clusters … 82
— 2.20 Shifting of morhemic boundaries … 83
— 2.21 Rise of prothetic semivowels … 83
— 2.22 First palatization of velars … 83
— 2.23 Yodization … 84
— 2.24 Proto-Slavic consonant system … 85
— 2.25 Fronting of back vowels after soft consonants … 86
— 2.26 Monophthongization of diphthongs in i and u … 86
— 2.27 Backing of ē after soft consonants … 88
— 2.28 Rise of y … 88
— 2.29 Phonemic pitch and the new vowel system … 88
— 2.30 From Early to Late Proto-Slavic … 89
— 2.31 Second (regressive) and third (progressive) palatalization of velars … 89
— 2.32 The relative chronology of the palatalization of velars … 90
— 2.33 Clusters tl and dl … 92
— 2.34 Monophthongization of diphthongs in nasal sonants … 92
— 2.35 Resolution of diphthongs in liquid sonants … 93
— 2.36 Development of ť ď … 95
— 2.37 Word stress … 96
— 2.38 Strong and weak positions of short high vowels (jers) … 97
— 2.39 Rise of the neoacute … 98
— 2.40 Rise of qualitative distinctions in the vowel system … 99
— 2.41 Rise of new quantity oppositions … 100
— 2.42 Tense jers … 101
— 2.43 Phonemic status of i (j) and u (v) … 101
— 2.44 Phonemes of Late Proto-Slavic and their distribution … 102
— 2.45 Nouns versus verbs … 103
— 2.46 Grammatical categories … 104
— 2.47 Nominal stems … 106
— 2.48 Declensions … 123
— 2.49 Inflection of adjectives and numerals … 128
— 2.50 Verbal stems … 129
— 2.51 Verbal aspect … 134
— 2.52 Personal endings … 137
— 2.53 Present tense. Conjugations I and II … 138
— 2.54 Aorist … 140
— 2.55 Imperfect … 143
— 2.56 Imperative … 144
— 2.57 Infinitive and supine … 145
— 2.58 Participles … 145
— 2.59 Compound verbal categories … 148
— 2.60 Verbal substantive … 148
— 2.61 Syntactic reconstruction … 149
— 2.62 Syntactic constructions … 150
— 2.63 Use of cases … 153
— 2.64 Word order … 154
— 2.65 Composition of the wordstock … 155
— 2.66 Lexical borrowing … 159
— 2.67 Grammatical productivity … 161
— 2.68 Grammatical analogy … 161
— 2.69 Late Proto-Slavic dialect isoglosses … 162
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3. EARLY WRITING … 165
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— 3.1 Paleography … 165
— 3.2 Slavic alphabets … 165
— 3.3 The genealogy of Glagolitic … 166
— 3.4 Glagolitic and Cyrillic letters … 167
— 3.5 Slavic writing before the Moravian mission … 172
— 3.6 The testimony of the monk Khrabr … 173
— 3.7 Unsystematic Slavic adaptations of Greek and Latin alphabets … 174
— 3.8 The “Russian” letters in the Vita Constantini … 176
— 3.9 The abecedarium from St. Sophia in Kiev … 176
— 3.10 The origin of the terms Glagolitic and Cyrillic … 177
— 3.11 Why was Glagolitic introduced? … 177
— 3.12 The locale of Glagolitic … 178
— 3.13 The precedence of Glagolitic … 179
— 3.14 Digraphs and ligatures … 180
— 3.15 Abbreviations … 181
— 3.16 Numerals … 182
— 3.17 Dates … 183
— 3.18 Punctuation and diacritics … 183
— 3.19 Styles of handwriting … 183
— 3.20 Physical description of manuscripts … 184
— 3.21 Writing materials … 184
— 3.22 Palimpsests … 185
— 3.23 The term Old Church Slavonic … 185
— 3.24 Old Church Slavonic and Proto-Slavic … 186
— 3.25 The periodization of Old Church Slavonic … 187
— 3.26 The Ohrid and Preslav schools … 188
— 3.27 The canon of Old Church Slavonic … 189
— 3.28 Old Church Slavonic and Church Slavonic … 190
— 3.29 Local recensions of Church Slavonic … 190
— 3.30 (Old) Church Slavonic literary community … 193
— 3.31 Translations versus original works … 194
— 3.32 Authors and authorship … 196
— 3.33 Constantine and Methodius … 197
— 3.34 Clement of Ohrid … 198
— 3.35 Constantine of Preslav … 198
— 3.36 John the Exarch … 199
— 3.37 Textual criticism … 199
— 3.38 Early Slavic texts … 200
— 3.39 Biblical texts … 201
— 3.40 Apocrypha and pseudoepigrapha … 201
— 3.41 Liturgical an paraliturgical texts … 202
— 3.42 Fourfold Gospels … 209
— 3.43 Biblical exegeses … 210
— 3.44 Homiletic texts … 211
— 3.45 Miscellanies and florilegia … 213
— 3.46 Hagiography … 214
— 3.47 Hymnography and other poetic works … 216
— 3.48 Monasticism … 222
— 3.49 Learning … 224
— 3.50 Historiography … 228
— 3.51 Legal texts … 232
— 3.52 Epistolary literature and correspondence … 234
— 3.53 Epigraphic texts … 235
— 3.54 Glosses … 237
— 3.55 Place and personal names … 238
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4. APPENDICES … 241
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A. Rise of Slavic philology … 241
B. Chronological table … 253
C. Orthodox Church calendar … 258
D. Samples of early Slavic writing … 261
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Bibliography … 303
Index … 337
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