The Dawn of Slavic
Subtitle: An Introduction to Slavic Philology (Yale Language Series)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: June 26, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780300058468
Subjects: Historical & comparative linguistics; Foreign Language Study; Reference; Slavic (Slavonic) languages; Language; General; Slavic Languages; Foreign Language Study / Slavic Languages; Slavic Languages (Other); History; Slavic philology; Slavs
Description: xviii, 346 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Table of contents: title: Contents … vii; title: List of maps … xiii; title: Preface … xv; title: Note on transliteration and abbreviations … xix; title: ◦; title: 1. HISTORICAL SETTING; title: ◦; title: — 1.1  In search of roots … 1; title: — 1.2  The autochthonous theory … 1; title: — 1.3  Material culture and language … 2; title: — 1.4  Were the Veneti Slavic … 3; title: — 1.5  Evidence of place and river names … 5; title: — 1.6  Classical sources … 5; title: — 1.7  Médos and strava … 6; title: — 1.8  The Danubian and mid-Dnieper theories … 6; title: — 1.9  The Indo-European homeland … 8; title: — 1.10  The Great Migrations. Jordanes’ testimony … 9; title: — 1.11  The Avars … 9; title: — 1.12  Constantinople and Christianity … 11; title: — 1.13  Europe after the Great Migrations … 12; title: — 1.14  Christianization of the Goths and of other Germanic tribes … 13; title: — 1.15	Christianization of the Celts and Anglo-Saxons … 13; title: — 1.16  The Franks … 14; title: — 1.17  Charlemagne and the Papacy … 14; title: — 1.18  The Slavs in the Balkans. Procopius’ testimony … 15; title: — 1.19	John of Ephesus’ testimony … 16; title: — 1.20  Emperor Maurice’s Strategikon … 16; title: — 1.21  Theophylact Simocatta’s History … 17; title: — 1.22  The siege of Constantinople in 626. The Paschal Chronicle … 18; title: — 1.23  The Croats and Serbs. Constantine Porphyrogenitus’ testimony … 19; title: — 1.24  The Bulgars. Theophanes the Confessor’s testimony … 19; title: — 1.25  Christianity among the Balkan Slavs … 21; title: — 1.26  Samo’s Slavic state in central Europe. Fredegar’s testimony … 21; title: — 1.27  The Alpine Slavs. Paul the Deacon’s testimony … 22; title: — 1.28  The Carantanian mission. The testimony of the Conversion Bagoariorum et Carantanorum … 23; title: — 1.29  The Aquileian mission. The Gospel of Cividale … 24; title: — 1.30  Moravia and Pannonia in the ninth century … 25; title: — 1.31  The Cyrillo-Methodian sources … 26; title: — 1.32  The early careers of Constantine and Methodius … 28; title: — 1.33  The mission to the Khazars … 29; title: — 1.34  The background of the Moravian mission … 30; title: — 1.35  The Constantinian period … 32; title: — 1.36  The Methodian period … 34; title: — 1.37  The testimony of papal correspondence … 36; title: — 1.38  Was the Moravian mission Byzantine or Roman? … 40; title: — 1.39  The Moravian debacle … 41; title: — 1.40  The legacy of the Moravian mission in Bulgaria … 42; title: — 1.41  From Moravia to Bohemia … 43; title: — 1.42  The northwestern Slavs. The testimony of Frankish and Saxon chronicles … 46; title: — 1.43  Religious beliefs of the northwestern Slavs as reported by Thietmar and Helmold … 48; title: — 1.44  Poland … 50; title: — 1.45  The eastern Slavs … 53; title: — 1.46  The Norsemen in eastern Europe … 54; title: — 1.47  The terms Rus’ and Russian … 57; title: ◦; title: 2. LANGUAGE … 61; title: ◦; title: — 2.1  The historical comparative method and the concept of the proto-language … 61; title: — 2.2  Linguistic reconstruction and phonetic laws … 63; title: — 2.3  Indo-European languages and Proto-Indo-European … 65; title: — 2.4  Survey of the Indo-European languages … 66; title: — 2.5  Periodization of Proto-Slavic … 69; title: — 2.6  The problem of Balto-Slavic … 70; title: — 2.7  Survey of the Slavic languages … 70; title: — 2.8  Problems in phonological reconstruction … 75; title: — 2.9  Late Proto-Indo-European phonemic system … 77; title: — 2.10  Laryngeals … 77; title: — 2.11  Proto-Indo-European ablaut … 78; title: — 2.12  Loss of aspiration … 79; title: — 2.13	Treatment of velar stops … 80; title: — 2.14  Retroflexion of s … 80; title: — 2.15  Merger of ō and ā … 81; title: — 2.16  Phonemic inventory of Early Proto-Slavic … 82; title: — 2.17  Constraints on syllabic structure … 82; title: — 2.18  Elimination of word-final consonants … 82; title: — 2.19  Resolution of syllable-initial clusters … 82; title: — 2.20  Shifting of morhemic boundaries … 83; title: — 2.21  Rise of prothetic semivowels … 83; title: — 2.22  First palatization of velars … 83; title: — 2.23  Yodization … 84; title: — 2.24  Proto-Slavic consonant system … 85; title: — 2.25  Fronting of back vowels after soft consonants … 86; title: — 2.26  Monophthongization of diphthongs in i and u … 86; title: — 2.27  Backing of ē after soft consonants … 88; title: — 2.28  Rise of y … 88; title: — 2.29  Phonemic pitch and the new vowel system … 88; title: — 2.30  From Early to Late Proto-Slavic … 89; title: — 2.31  Second (regressive) and third (progressive) palatalization of velars … 89; title: — 2.32  The relative chronology of the palatalization of velars … 90; title: — 2.33  Clusters tl and dl … 92; title: — 2.34  Monophthongization of diphthongs in nasal sonants … 92; title: — 2.35  Resolution of diphthongs in liquid sonants … 93; title: — 2.36  Development of ť ď … 95; title: — 2.37  Word stress … 96; title: — 2.38  Strong and weak positions of short high vowels (jers) … 97; title: — 2.39  Rise of the neoacute … 98; title: — 2.40  Rise of qualitative distinctions in the vowel system … 99; title: — 2.41  Rise of new quantity oppositions … 100; title: — 2.42  Tense jers … 101; title: — 2.43  Phonemic status of i (j) and u (v) … 101; title: — 2.44	Phonemes of Late Proto-Slavic and their distribution … 102; title: — 2.45  Nouns versus verbs … 103; title: — 2.46  Grammatical categories … 104; title: — 2.47  Nominal stems … 106; title: — 2.48  Declensions … 123; title: — 2.49  Inflection of adjectives and numerals … 128; title: — 2.50  Verbal stems … 129; title: — 2.51  Verbal aspect … 134; title: — 2.52  Personal endings … 137; title: — 2.53  Present tense. Conjugations I and II … 138; title: — 2.54  Aorist … 140; title: — 2.55  Imperfect … 143; title: — 2.56  Imperative … 144; title: — 2.57  Infinitive and supine … 145; title: — 2.58  Participles … 145; title: — 2.59  Compound verbal categories … 148; title: — 2.60	Verbal substantive … 148; title: — 2.61  Syntactic reconstruction … 149; title: — 2.62  Syntactic constructions … 150; title: — 2.63  Use of cases … 153; title: — 2.64  Word order … 154; title: — 2.65  Composition of the wordstock … 155; title: — 2.66  Lexical borrowing … 159; title: — 2.67  Grammatical productivity … 161; title: — 2.68  Grammatical analogy … 161; title: — 2.69  Late Proto-Slavic dialect isoglosses … 162; title: ◦; title: 3. EARLY WRITING … 165; title: ◦; title: — 3.1  Paleography … 165; title: — 3.2  Slavic alphabets … 165; title: — 3.3  The genealogy of Glagolitic … 166; title: — 3.4  Glagolitic and Cyrillic letters … 167; title: — 3.5  Slavic writing before the Moravian mission … 172; title: — 3.6  The testimony of the monk Khrabr … 173; title: — 3.7  Unsystematic Slavic adaptations of Greek and Latin alphabets … 174; title: — 3.8  The “Russian” letters in the Vita Constantini … 176; title: — 3.9  The abecedarium from St. Sophia in Kiev … 176; title: — 3.10  The origin of the terms Glagolitic and Cyrillic … 177; title: — 3.11  Why was Glagolitic introduced? … 177; title: — 3.12  The locale of Glagolitic … 178; title: — 3.13  The precedence of Glagolitic … 179; title: — 3.14  Digraphs and ligatures … 180; title: — 3.15  Abbreviations … 181; title: — 3.16  Numerals … 182; title: — 3.17  Dates … 183; title: — 3.18  Punctuation and diacritics … 183; title: — 3.19  Styles of handwriting … 183; title: — 3.20  Physical description of manuscripts … 184; title: — 3.21	Writing materials … 184; title: — 3.22	Palimpsests … 185; title: — 3.23  The term Old Church Slavonic … 185; title: — 3.24  Old Church Slavonic and Proto-Slavic … 186; title: — 3.25  The periodization of Old Church Slavonic … 187; title: — 3.26  The Ohrid and Preslav schools … 188; title: — 3.27  The canon of Old Church Slavonic … 189; title: — 3.28  Old Church Slavonic and Church Slavonic … 190; title: — 3.29  Local recensions of Church Slavonic … 190; title: — 3.30  (Old) Church Slavonic literary community … 193; title: — 3.31  Translations versus original works … 194; title: — 3.32  Authors and authorship … 196; title: — 3.33  Constantine and Methodius … 197; title: — 3.34  Clement of Ohrid … 198; title: — 3.35  Constantine of Preslav … 198; title: — 3.36  John the Exarch … 199; title: — 3.37  Textual criticism … 199; title: — 3.38	Early Slavic texts … 200; title: — 3.39  Biblical texts … 201; title: — 3.40  Apocrypha and pseudoepigrapha … 201; title: — 3.41  Liturgical an paraliturgical texts … 202; title: — 3.42  Fourfold Gospels … 209; title: — 3.43  Biblical exegeses … 210; title: — 3.44  Homiletic texts … 211; title: — 3.45	Miscellanies and florilegia … 213; title: — 3.46  Hagiography … 214; title: — 3.47  Hymnography and other poetic works … 216; title: — 3.48  Monasticism … 222; title: — 3.49  Learning … 224; title: — 3.50  Historiography … 228; title: — 3.51  Legal texts … 232; title: — 3.52  Epistolary literature and correspondence … 234; title: — 3.53  Epigraphic texts … 235; title: — 3.54  Glosses …  237; title: — 3.55  Place and personal names … 238; title: ◦; title: 4. APPENDICES … 241; title: ◦; title: A. Rise of Slavic philology … 241; title: B. Chronological table … 253; title: C. Orthodox Church calendar … 258; title: D. Samples of early Slavic writing … 261; title: ◦; title: Bibliography … 303; title: Index … 337