Phonetic and word-formation borrowings from Old Church Slavonic in the first redaction of belarussian-lithuanian chronicles (based on the Academic Chronicle and Suprasl Chronicle) Cover Image

Cerkiewnosłowianizmy fonetyczne i słowotwórcze w I redakcji latopisów białorusko-litewskich (na przykładzie Latopisu Akademickiego i Kroniki supraskiej)
Phonetic and word-formation borrowings from Old Church Slavonic in the first redaction of belarussian-lithuanian chronicles (based on the Academic Chronicle and Suprasl Chronicle)

Author(s): Katarzyna Grabowska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology, Historical Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: the literature of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania; Belorussian-Lithuanian chronicles; phonetic; word-formation; the Old Church Slavonic Language

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this article is an analysis of two 16th century monuments of Grand Duchy of Lithuania writing: the Academic Chronicle and the Suprasl Chronicle. They belong to the first Belarusian-Lithuanian redaction, which consists of three main parts: all-Ruthenian, Smolensk, and the Chronicle of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania – the first original work wholly written in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The aim of the article is to single out in both chronicles Old Church Slavonic elements occurring on phonetic and word-formation levels. The analysis has revealed that in the oldest, all-Ruthenian part of both Old Church Slavonic works there are the most phonetic and word-formation features. However, they are also present in the other parts of the chronicles, in which Old Church Slavonic forms of all-Slavonic words and their Old Ruthenian equivalents appear parallelly. A number of prefixes and suffixes typical of the Old Church Slavonic language also confirm a strong link between these two chronicles and the writing tradition.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 23
  • Page Range: 51-61
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish
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