The INTERRELATION BETWEEN SYNTAX AND FUNCTION OF OLD CHURCH SLAVONIC BO, ŽE, LI
The INTERRELATION BETWEEN SYNTAX AND FUNCTION OF OLD CHURCH SLAVONIC BO, ŽE, LI
Author(s): ANDREA DI MANNOSubject(s): Morphology, Syntax, Lexis, Historical Linguistics
Published by: Wydział Polonistyki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Old Church Slavonic; Wackernagel’s Law; enclitics; textual connectors; information structure;
Summary/Abstract: This article analyses the positioning of the particles že, li, bo in Old Church Slavonic, attempting to demonstrate that their placement is not determined by a single syntactic rule (Wackernagel’s Law), but is a consequence of the different functions these three elements have. The fact that there is no class of enclitics syntactically placed in second position is a serious challenge to the validity of this law in Old Church Slavonic.
Journal: Prace Filologiczne
- Issue Year: 78/2023
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 79-95
- Page Count: 17
- Language: English
