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Характеристика языка Деяния апостола Фомы в рукописи НИМ24
Language Characteristics of Acts of Thomas the Apostle in Manuscript NIM24

Author(s): Mariya Spasova
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Институт за литература - БАН
Keywords: archaisms; archetype; version; grammatical characteristic

Summary/Abstract: The topic of the article concerns the issue of the presence of traces of language archaisms in texts, emerged in an early state of the Old Bulgarian literary practice but preserved in later copies. The object of research is the apocrypha Acts of Thomas the Apostle, based on the copy in the Serbian manuscript NHM24. The grammatical peculiarities in the text are the special subject of research. Even when the copy is centuries old or the text has been edited, traces of the proto text are kept to a certain degree. In the Acts of Thomas the Apostle are registered obvious grammatical archaisms that can be found it the text only if it has emerged in a time when they had still been active in the Old Bulgarian literary language.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 20
  • Page Range: 227-242
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Russian