Introduction to Old Church Slavic--Texts.

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Problems of Proto-Slavic Historical Nominal Morphology : On the Basis of Old Church Slavic

In this study I offer a diachronic solution for a number of difficult inflectional endings in Old Church Slavic nominal declensions. In this context I address the perhaps most disputed and the most important question of the Slavic nominal inflectional morphology: whether there was in Proto-Slavic an Auslautgesetz (ALG), a law of final syllables, that narrowed the Proto-Indo-European vowel */o/ to */u/ in closed word-final syllables. In addition, the work contains an exhaustive morphological classification of the nouns and adjectives that occur in canonical Old Church Slavic. I argue that Proto-Indo-European */o/ became Proto-Slavic */u/ before word-final */s/ and */N/. This conclusion is based on the impossibility of finding credible analogical (as opposed to phonological) explanations for the forms supporting the ALG hypothesis, and on the survival of the neuter gender in Slavic. It is not likely that the */o/-stem nominative singular ending */-u/ was borrowed from the accusative singular, because the latter would have been the only paradigmatic form with the stem vowel */-u-/. It is equally unlikely that the ending */-u/ was borrowed from the */u/-stems, because the latter constituted a moribund class. The usually stated motivation for such an analogical borrowing, i.e. a need to prevent the merger of */o/-stem masculines with neuters of the same class, is not tenable. Extra-Slavic, as well as intra-Slavic evidence suggests that phonologically-triggered mergers between two semantically opaque genders do not tend to be prevented, but rather that such mergers lead to the loss of the gender opposition in question. On the other hand, if */-os/ had not become */-us/, most nouns and, most importantly, all adjectives and pronouns would have lost the formal distinction between masculines and neuters. This would have necessarily resulted in the loss of the neuter gender. A new explanation is given for the most apparent piece of evidence against the ALG hypothesis, the nominative-accusative singular of the */es/-stem neuters, e.g. nebo 'sky'. I argue that it arose in late Proto-Slavic dialects, replacing regular nebe, under the influence of the */o/- and */yo/-stems where a correlation had emerged between a hard root-final consonant and the termination -o, on the one hand, and a soft root-final consonant and the termination -e, on the other.

A short grammar of Church Slavonic.

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Paraklētikē : manuscript, 1353

Written by unidentified scribe in Church Slavic of Serbian recension, in semiuncial book hand in brown ink on vellum, headings and initials in red ink; front pages are missing; pagination in pencil starts on f. 1.

Zum altkirchenslawischen Apostolus.

Pt. 3: "Gedruckt aus den Mitteln der Stonborough-Stiftung."

Grammaire paléoslave : suivie de textes paléoslaves : tirés, pour la plupart, des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Impériale de Paris et du Psautier de Bologne /

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Crtice iz hrvatske knjiz̆evnosti.

sv. 1. Uvod u knjiz̆evnost.--sv. 2. Crkvena knjiz̆evnost.

Ocherki i zami︠e︡tki iz oblasti filologīi, istorīi i filosofīi.

Includes bibliographical references.

Grammatica slavo-ruthena : seu vetero-slavicae, et actu in montibus Carpathicis parvo-Russicae, ceu dialecti vigentis lingvae /

Text in Latin.

Rukovʹodstvo kʺ slavʹeistěĭ grammʹatit︠s︡ě ispravlenněĭ vo upotreblʹenïe slaveno-sʹerbskikhʺ narʹodnykhʺ uchʹilishchʺ : izdano trudʹom A. Mrʹazovicha.

Title page imperfect.

Tvorenīi︠a︡ ott︠s︡ov t︠s︡erkvi v drevne-russkoĭ pis'mennosti : izvlechenīi︠a︡ iz rukopiseĭ i opyty istoriko-literaturnykh izuchenīĭ /

Includes bibliographical references.

Evangelium Dobromiri. Ein altmacedonisches Denkmal der kirchenslavischen Sprache des XII. Jahrhunderts.

I. Einleitung.--II. Lexikalisch-kritischer Theil.

Grammatika slavi︠a︡nskai︠a︡.

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Vlakho-bolgarskii︠a︡ ili Dako-slavi︠a︡nskii︠a︡ gramoty /

Russian or Church Slavic.

Grammatika drevni︠a︡go t︠s︡erkovno-slavi︠a︡nskago i︠a︡zyka, izlozhennai︠a︡ sravnitelʹno s russkoi︠u︡ /

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