scholarly journals Communicative Strategies in the 13th-Century Tolstovskiy Sbornik

2021 ◽  
pp. 31-42
Author(s):  
Maria Novak
Keyword(s):  
General Type ◽  
Personal Pronouns ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
National Library ◽  
Biblical Story ◽  
Old Russian ◽  
Communicative Strategies ◽  
Biblical History ◽  
Verb Forms

The article discusses communicative strategies in the Old Russian Tolstovskiy Sbornik dating back to the 13 th century (National Library of Russia, F.p.I.39), a general type of Panegyric, which includes the texts of the triode and menaean cycles. The author considers how individual works and the collection as a whole interact with the addressee and finds out that the collection implements the strategies of explicit and implicit influence. The first is inherent in the homiletic and catechetical genre and implies a direct appeal to the reader or listener. The addressee can also be imaginary (this communicative situation is realized only in the Parable of Wisdom). The speech means characteristic of this strategy are imperative verb forms and personal pronouns. The second strategy involves the addressee indirectly, representing the dialogical interaction between the characters. It unites texts of different genres: the panegyric words of Cyril Turovsky, the hagiographic "memory" of Basil the Great, the apocryphal Tale of Aphroditian. Dialogues between the characters either provide a framework for the biblical story, or function as "engines" of the plot. The interaction of dialogical structures with each other and with the narrative can be quite complex: one dialogue can be inside another, the participants of dialogues can be storytellers, and the communication of characters can be both verbal and non-verbal. Both communicative strategies, in their unity, serve the tasks of informing and educating Christians (acquaintance with the biblical history and the formation of an ethical ideal).

scholarly journals A Nativity Sermon in the 13th Century Tolstovskiy Sbornik: Textology and Language Features

2019 ◽  
pp. 6-17
Author(s):  
Maria Novak
Keyword(s):  
Russian Text ◽  
Source Text ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
National Library ◽  
Parts Of Speech ◽  
Old Russian ◽  
John Chrysostom ◽  
Editorial Work ◽  
Rhetorical Structures ◽  
Greek Source

The paper focuses on the composition, lexical, and grammatical features of a Nativity sermon in the 13 th century Old Russian Tolstovskiy Sbornik (National Library of Russia, F.p.I.39). The author considers its Byzantine sources, principles of editorial work, and the differences from original rhetorical structures. Attributed to John Chrysostom, the sermon turns out to be a complicated compilation from various early Byzantine sermons. The compilation is based both on rearranging fragments of the same source and on combining excerpts from different sermons in a small context. Such transformations indicate the lack of cohesion in sermon texts, due to their independence from the causation and time factor. Non-attributed parts of the Old Russian text may be original since they demonstrate a certain similarity with Kirill Turovskiy orations in the same anthology. The lexical level of the sermon contains non-standard solutions that reinterpret the Greek source text, which may indicate either the missionary nature of the translation or a tendency to the poetic decoration. In some cases, the semantic mismatch of lexical units within Greek-Slavonic correlations is due to errors. At the grammatical level, there are also grammatical inconsistencies of Slavonic and Greek units; they affect the categories of time, number, gender, as well as parts-of-speech status.

scholarly journals Mediaeval jewellery from the Volga-Kama area in the East-Baltic region

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 227-251
Author(s):  
V. Kuznetsova ◽  
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I. Stasyuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Baltic Region ◽  
The South ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Ladoga Region ◽  
Old Russian ◽  
North Western ◽  
North Sweden

This paper considers jewellery objects of the Volga-Kama provenience of the 9th–13th century revealed at archaeological sites in the territory of North-Western Russia, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and North Sweden. Groups of Kama and Volga imports are identified for the products characteristic of the Volga-Kama region in general, and for “syncretic” objects of the Old-Russian period combining artistic traditions and techniques of different regions. The article notes the concentration of finds of this kind in the South-East Ladoga region and in Novgorod

scholarly journals Constructions of the Cardinal Numerals with the Words Which Belong to Them in the Kievo-Pecherskiy Paterikon

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-31
Author(s):  
István Pozsgai
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Old Russian ◽  
Part Of Speech ◽  
Slavonic Language ◽  
Russian Edition ◽  
Syntactic Relations ◽  
Syntactic Properties

The aim of this work is to examine the system of the syntactic relations of the cardinal numerals with the words which belong to them in the Kievo-Pecherskiy Paterikon that was compiled in the 13th century. The manuscript on the basis of which the text was published was copied in the late 15th – early 16th centuries. I am mainly searching those phenomena, which can give information about the conditions of the genesis and development of the numerals as a new independent part of speech. I am paying attention to the phenomena which can be connected with the unification of the several types of the syntactic relations of the cardinal numerals with their associated words. I am searching for all quantitative constructions except for the constructions containing the numeral 1 as a prime numeral. The found quantitative constructions are grouped according to the type of combination of cardinal numerals with names or participles. Particular attention is paid to the combinations of quantitative numerals with related words, which differ from the norms of other monuments, such as the Old Church Slavonic language of the Russian edition, Old Russian and early Russian Church Slavonic monuments, since it is these phenomena that can indicate the process of acquiring general morphological and syntactic properties by cardinal numerals. On the basis of the quantitative constructions that do not correspond to the above-mentioned norms, three important grammatical phenomena are distinguished that can indicate the process of replacing old norms with new ones. As a contrast I am showing data from the other manuscripts.

scholarly journals Old Slavic Sermon Language: The Extraordinary Nature of Verb Morphology in Cyril Turovskij’s Homilies

Slovene ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oleg F. Zholobov
Keyword(s):  
13Th Century ◽  
Future Tense ◽  
Verb Morphology ◽  
Old Russian ◽  
12Th Century ◽  
Special Character ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Simple Language ◽  
Auxiliary Verb

The article’s subject matter—verbs functioning in the sermons of the Old Russian church writer Cyril Turovskij (second half of the 12th century)—is considered in details for the first time on the basis of the earliest source, Tolstovskij Sbornik (second half of the 13th century). Since Cyril’s sermons were addressed to a wide range of listeners and readers they had to be based on intelligible and simple language forms that also preserved a connection with literary standards. This manifested itself in the significant Russification of the preaching language. The article describes the following features of the language of Cyril’s sermons: the earliest and widespread usage of “praesens historicum”; the exclusive usage of aorist forms with additional endings (načętъ type); the special functional and syntactic nature of the aorist rěšę; the unusually wide usage of 2 Sg. aorist and imperfect forms; the usage of perfective imperfect forms and imperfects with additional endings; the prospective future tense and modal functioning of the paraphrastic forms with the auxiliary verb xoščè; special cases of 1 Pl. imperatives usage; the special character of the reflexive enclitic sę; and the extraordinary distribution of periphrastic preterits forms. Some similarity of verbs functioning in Cyril’s homilies and The Tale of Igor’s Campaign is detected as well as in the original Chronicle, early Old Russian translations, and Paroemiarion.

scholarly journals The use of the auxiliary verb in 2nd person singular perfect verbal forms in Old Russian documents of the 14–16th centuries

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maciej Waraczewski
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Data ◽  
Strong Dependence ◽  
Personal Pronouns ◽  
Old Russian ◽  
Auxiliary Verb ◽  
Synthetic Form

The article analyses 2nd person singular perfect forms in a collection of Old Russian documents of the 14–16th centuries. The main focus is placed on their formal aspects and the transition from an analytic to synthetic form. The process itself is well-known, yet it still lacks a detailed description and fully explained reasons for its occurrence. The author, providing statistical data on the use of the auxiliary verb byti and explicitly expressed subject, proves its great regularity. There is a strong dependence between the two items and usually only one of them is applied with perfect constructions. This shows that the function of the auxiliary verb has been completely changed and in the period described it played only the role of a person indicator. Thus, it became redundant when the use of personal pronouns was increased. All the exceptions to this rule are scarce and can be explained with factors of a syntactical or extra-linguistic character. The author’s assumptions are confirmed with statistical data and examples taken from spiritual and contractual charters of grand princes and appanage princes in the XIV–XVI centuries.

scholarly journals On Some Sources of the Izbornik of the 13th Century

2020 ◽  
pp. 52-73
Author(s):  
Konstantin V. Vershinin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
13Th Century ◽  
National Library ◽  
Historia Ecclesiastica ◽  
Theodoret Of Cyrrhus

The section highlights several sources of the Izbornik (“Miscellany”) of the 13th century (National Library of Russia, Q.п.I.18): Christian Topography by Cosmas Indicopleustes, Zlatostruj (Chrysorrhoas), Historia Ecclesiastica by Germanus of Constantinople. Also, it argues that the fragments of Theodoret of Cyrrhus and Gennadius of Constantinople came into the Izbornik from two (or more) preceding Russian exegetical compilations.

Verb Forms Functioning in Cyril Turovskij’s Homilies

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-89
Author(s):  
Oleg Žolobov ◽  
Maria Novak
Keyword(s):  
Distinctive Character ◽  
Old Russian ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Verb Forms ◽  
First Time

SummaryThe article issue is verbs functioning in the works of Old Russian writer Cyril Turovskij (the second half of the 12th century). It is being considered in details for the first time on the base of the earliest source, Tolstovskij Sbornik (the second half of the 13th century). Since Cyril’s homilies were addressed to a wide range of listeners and readers, they had to be based on clear and straightforward language forms related, however, to literary standards. The article describes following features of Cyril’s language: the earliest usage of “praesens historicum”; exclusive usage of aorist forms with additional endings (начатъ type); distinctive character of aorist рѣша; unusually broad usage of 2 Sg. aorist forms; usage of perfective imperfect forms and imperfects with additional endings; standardized usage of Future I forms; individual cases of imperative usage. A certain similarity of verbs functioning in Cyril’s homilies and The Tale of Igor’s Campaign is detected.

scholarly journals FORMS МЪНОГО AND МАЛО IN RUSSIAN CHRONICLES OF THE 13TH TO 15TH CENTURIES AND COLLOCATIONS WITH THEM: COMPARATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE-STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-208
Author(s):  
R.A. Vernyaeva
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Parts Of Speech ◽  
Old Russian ◽  
The Core ◽  
Verb Forms ◽  
N Gram

The article is devoted to 1) the analysis of the chronicle contexts with the forms мъного and мало to determine parts of speech of these words in the Old Russian language, 2) the determination of the collocations and colligations with the forms мъного and мало in order to extract the patterns and N-grams which can be classified as the fixed lexical and grammatical chunks. This study presents the results regarding the specific forms of syntagmatics in determining parts of speech of these words. Having analyzed and compared the examples, we can infer that there was the evolution of non-finite forms into adverbs due to the activation of verb forms as the core of syntagma in the late manuscripts and the need to eliminate ambiguous connections of forms ending in -o if their semantics allows them to define both names and verb forms. It has been found that during the comprehensive analysis the modern research methods, especially the quantitative and statistical analysis, have an importance in extracting the collocations from the Old Russian texts. The article demonstrates statistically significant combinations - collocations obtained using the N-gram module.

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