Lexical Parallels in Smolensk and Vitebsk Dialects (Non-Derived Vocabulary)

2020 ◽  
pp. 42-56
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Lunkova
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
The Other ◽  
Lexical Meaning ◽  
Specific Subject ◽  
Close Interaction ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The One

Close interaction of Smolensk dialects with borderline Vitebsk and Mogilev ones is caused, on the one hand, by the common historical processes of the region, on the other hand, it is determined by the similarity of the cultural heritage of the Russian-Belarusian borderland. Throughout the Russian-Belarusian border, which runs through the territory of Smolensk region, there are a number of lexical formations that are a part of the existing language continuum that is of great interest to researchers from the standpoint of studying the existing dialect systems in synchrony and diachrony. It is expedient to oppose the existing dialect systems to the Russian and Belarusian standard languages in order to exclude possible facts of coincidence with a codified form from the description of the dialect language material. The found nouns with specific subject semantics are considered as lexical correspondences, i.e. regardless of the history of distribution or these units borrowing, from the standpoint of their synchronous existence in particular dialect systems. All dialect lexical correspondences can be divided into three groups, taking into account the similarity or degree of lexical meaning divergence. These groups are equivalent in different accounts and they correlate to each other on this criterion. This fact lets the study speaks in favor of the stability of the lexical meaning of non-derived nouns with specific subject semantics so that these nouns exist as lexical parallels in Smolensk and Vitebsk dialects.

scholarly journals Presentation of the Dossier

Caminhando ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Matthias Grenzer - Translation of João Batista Ribeiro Santos
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ancient Israel ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
The One ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
History Of Literature

The Pentateuch is a cultural heritage of Humanity. The world narrated in it belongs to the second millennium B.C., and the narratives, poems, and sets of laws contained therein were composed during the first six centuries of the first millennium B.C. On the one hand, by bringing together epic, lyrical, and legal poetry, the one hundred and eighty-seven chapters constitute, in the form of five books, a masterpiece in the history of literature. On the other hand, it is literature that proposes to cultivate memory, either in relation to the narrated world, or in view of the period of its composer, sometimes narrating, sometimes legislating, sometimes singing. Moreover, as literature aimed at history, the texts of the Pentateuch promote enormous theological reflection. The main goal seems to be to think God. Thus the first five books of the Jewish Bible and the Christian Bible, with their narrated models of faith and behavior, turned into poems and defined by legal formulations, became the foundational reference for the religion of ancient Israel, of which Judaism was born and, from the latter, Christianity. Also Jesus of Nazareth, in the four New Testament Gospels, is presented in relation to Abraham and Moses, and stands out as a unique teacher with regard to the laws contained in the Pentateuch.

The symptomatology of a surpassing disaster: Narrativization and temporality in the work of Walid Raad

Maska ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (200) ◽  
pp. 84-101
Author(s):  
Kaja Kraner
Keyword(s):  
Standard Treatment ◽  
Arab World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
American Artist ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
Common Thread ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One

Since the 1990s, the common thread to artistic practices based on the collection, archiving and presentation of historical documents can be derived from what is happening with the space, time and the regimes of visibility and knowledge as part of digital reproductivity. Nevertheless, roughly two separate key approaches can be identified: construction approaches that are often designed as an intervention in the dominant historiographical practice, on the one hand, and approaches focusing on the study of infrastructural, epistemological and other conditions for the possibility of archiving and historicization in general, on the other. The latter approaches frequently question the standard treatment of documents that is most often based on the ability to trace their origin as well as on their presumptive expressive and narrative potentials. The article therefore analyses the approach to studying history adopted by Lebanese-American artist Walid Raad, drawing from the performance-lecture Les Louvres and/or Kicking the Dead, which is part of a broader project about “a history of art in the Arab world”. In the process of defining the specifics of Raad’s approach based on the concepts of “spaces of interrupted histories” and “self-historicization”, the article draws a comparison between artistic uses of documents in the context of former socialist countries and the Middle East or, more specifically, the Lebanese socio-political context. Instead of unifying both “spaces of interrupted histories” by focusing on narrativization and temporality in Raad’s work, I concentrate mostly on the differences.

scholarly journals The History and Main Avenues of Historical Lexicography in the Comparative Aspect (On the Example of Historical Dictionaries of the Russian and Czech Languages)

2020 ◽  
pp. 73-97
Author(s):  
Oxana G. Truhlarova ◽  
◽  
Simona Korycankova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
Lexical Meaning ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Comparative Aspect ◽  
Wide Circle ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One

The aim of the present article is to trace the establishment of the Russian and Czech historical lexicography and conduct a comparative study of the features of historical dictionaries of these languages. Historical dictionaries of the Czech and Russian languages served as the subject matter of the study. The dictionaries are reviewed chronologically and analyzed according to several lexicographical criteria: time of creation, pool of sources, extent of vocabulary, entry structure, manner of representation of a word’s lexical meaning. Historical lexicography is distinguished by a certain terminological vagueness and ambiguity. Thus, the term “historical dictionary” can mean, on the one hand, a lexicographical study that represents the history of words in the course of a certain epoch in a language’s evolution. On the other hand, dictionaries that explain the meaning of words used in ancient writings can also be termed historical. Such ambiguity signifies that the subject of historical lexicography has not received sufficient attention, either in regards to individual languages, or the Slavic lexicography as a whole. This study has isolated the following stages in the development of the Czech and Russian historical lexicography: (1) 17th–18th centuries – scientific study of vocabulary gives rise to predecessors of historical dictionaries (wordlists, lexicons), (2) 19th century – descriptions of vocabulary stress diachronic changes, giving rise to the first historical dictionaries, (3) 20th century – historical lexicography joins linguistics as a distinct branch of scientific study. A methodology for the compilation of historical dictionaries is developed, many new historical dictionaries are compiled that encompass the entire span of a language’s history, as well as only certain formative stages of the Russian or Czech language. (4) Late 20th – early 21st centuries – conceptual changes to the editorial approach to the structure and compilation of historical dictionaries, the relevance of publishing the dictionaries in the printed form is debated. The introduction of IT into the linguistic science has enabled an expansion of the dictionary database. The practice of creating language corpora has given historical lexicography a new direction and made the material accessible to a wide circle of users. The following can be counted among the distinctive features of the Czech and Russian historical lexicography: a keen interest in the history of language on the part of Czech researchers at even the early stages of the linguistic science, adherence to Western European examples by Czech lexicographers, most historical dictionaries of the Czech language have never been published in full because the work on them has either been suspended or discontinued altogether. In the Russian historical lexicography, on the other hand, there is an intense ongoing effort to create new dictionaries.

scholarly journals Bibliotheca Tessinensis – seria edycji źródłowych Książnicy Cieszyńskiej i Ośrodka Dokumentacyjnego Kongresu Polaków w Republice Czeskiej

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 359-376
Author(s):  
Janusz Spyra ◽  
Krzysztof Szelong
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Middle Ages

The editorial series Bibliotheca Tessinensis, founded in 2004, is devoted to publishing the unknown or hardy accessible source documents related to the history of Cieszyn Silesia from the Middle Ages to the present, as well as the sources of universal significance, which are stored in Cieszyn Silesia and constitute the abiding component of the cultural heritage of the region. The title of the series harks back to the edition of the bio- and bibliographical materials, planned to be edited by Leopold Jan Szersznik (1747-1814); in the publishers’ intention it grounds the series in the historiographical tradition of the region, giving it also a supranational character and outreach. Accordingly, the Bibliotheca Tessinensis is being issued in two subseries – one of them (Series Polonica) published by Książnica Cieszyńska (the Cieszyn Historical Library), and the other (Series Bohemica) – by Ośrodek Dokumentacyjny Kongresu Polaków w Republice Czeskiej (the Documentation Centre of the Congress of Poles in the Czech Republic). The consecutive volumes of both subseries, issued independently of each other, depending on the organiza tional and financial possibilities of the publishers, are prepared according to the common editorial instruction, have the same layout, and are numbered sequentially within the whole series.

scholarly journals XV. A Reply to Mr. Tytler's “Historical Remarks on the Death of Richard the Second:” by Thomas Amyot, Esq. F.R.S., Treasurer, in a Letter addressed to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S., Secretary

Archaeologia ◽  
1831 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 277-298
Author(s):  
Thomas Amyot
Keyword(s):  
Sir Walter Scott ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Third ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Walter Scott ◽  
Historical Remarks ◽  
The One

In an Enquiry which I addressed to you some years ago, concerning the death of Richard the Second, I took occasion to advert to the rumours prevalent after the date usually assigned to that event, relative to his supposed escape into Scotland, and his death and burial at Stirling. The story on which these rumours were founded, and to which no credit had been given by any English historian of established reputation, has lately been revived, and its truth defended with much plausibility and ingenuity, by Mr. Fraser Tytler, in an elaborate Dissertation subjoined to the third volume of his valuable History of Scotland. The name and authority of the writer would be sufficient to excite attention to his statements, even if they had not already attracted the notice of two of the most distinguished of his countrymen, though with different results as to the impression produced on them. Sir Walter Scott, on the one hand, has fully avowed his belief in the relation, while on the other, Sir James Mackintosh has, with equal decision, expressed his dissent from it. Had it fallen within the plan of the latter eminent person to state the reasons for his adherence to the common narrative more in detail, and with reference to the authorities on which they were grounded, any further attempt on my part to investigate the subject would have been superfluous. But, as the case now stands, I may be permitted to offer a more circumstantial reply to Mr. Tytler's arguments, bearing in mind the courtesy he has uniformly shown in his references to my former observations.

scholarly journals Interaction of Non-derivative Vocabulary of Smolensk Dialect and the Belarusian Language: Full Lexical Correspondences

2021 ◽  
pp. 80-98
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Lunkova
Keyword(s):  
Stable Distribution ◽  
The Other ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
Lexical Meaning ◽  
Common Culture ◽  
Spiritual Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
Different Origins

Specific non-derivative nouns that are functioning in Smolensk dialect reveal a significant number of lexical parallels in the independent languageе structure of the contemporary Belarusian language. The analysis of these words is carried out in order to establish their status in two synchronous lexical and gram- matical systems for further clarification relating to the number of lexical parallels of different origins in Smolensk dialect. The subject of the study is the volume of lexical meaning of specific nonderivative nouns recorded in independent, but at the same time contact-located language formations, in one of which they have a regional status (Smolensk dialect), and in the other one they are included in the codified form of the standard language (the Belarusian language). The relevance of the study is explained by the complex history of the Russian-Belarusian borderland, which is reflected both in Smolensk dialect and in the Belarusian language, which has been developed on the dialect basis. The common material and spiritual culture typical for the dialects of the Russian-Belarus-ian borderland is a marker revealing the specifics of the region described. Due to the common culture, these conditionally distant language units regularly coincide in the volume of lexical meaning and demonstrate a stable distribution within lexical and semantic groups in each language formation at the present stage of its functioning.

scholarly journals THE COMPARATIVE LEGAL HISTORY OF LIMITATION AND PRESCRIPTION

Obiter ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eltjo Schrage
Keyword(s):  
Legal History ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
The Other ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Oliver Wendell Holmes ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Law ◽  
The One

Within both the civil law and the common law (as well as in mixed legal systems), there are means of acquiring and losing rights, or of freeing ourselves from obligations with the passage of time. The reason for this is at least twofold: on the one hand, for a claimant, a dispossessed owner or a creditor, limitation and prescription provide stimuli for bringing the action; on the other, this sanction upon the negligence of the claimant implies in many cases a windfall for the defendant. If a creditor is negligent in protecting his assets, the law at a certain stage no longer protects him or her. As Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. said aptly some 100 years ago: “Sometimes it is said that, if a man neglects to enforce his rights, he cannot complain if, after a while, the law follows his example”.

scholarly journals Rediscovering past narrations: The oral history of the Romanian language preserved in the National Phonogram Archive

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-60
Author(s):  
Oana Niculescu ◽  
Maria Marin ◽  
Daniela Răuţu
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Oral History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
Gain Access

In this paper we aim to deliver a key message related to the safeguarding of the Romanian National Phonogram Archive (AFLR). The data gathered within the Archive (the richest, most inclusive and diversified collection of dialectal texts and ethno-linguistic recordings in Romania) are of immeasurable documentary value. Through the digitization and preservation of AFLR we can gain access to both individual and collective memories, aiding to a better understanding of our cultural heritage on the one hand, and, on the other hand, restoring missing or forgotten pieces of Europe’s oral history.

scholarly journals Freemasonry and the Orient

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara De Poli
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
The West ◽  
The Core ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One

The symbolic and historical dimension of the main founding archetypes of Freemasonry – the Orient with a special focus on Egypt – are at the core of this book, which aims to recover the red thread with which masons tie together Masonry and Oriental esotericism. If, on the one hand, the Author points out mystifications and inventions that have characterised part of the Masonic narrative on its origins; on the other hand, she unearths the history of real contaminations and intersections between esotericism of the East and the West, digging up the common matrix that nourished them.

Herbert, Edward (Baron Herbert of Cherbury) (c.1583–1648)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Pailin
Keyword(s):  
Religious Belief ◽  
The Other ◽  
Henry Viii ◽  
Public Figure ◽  
Religious Conflicts ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One ◽  
Work First ◽  
Philosophical Scepticism

Responding, on the one hand, to religious conflicts over the question of the locus and interpretation of authority for deciding what constitutes authentic belief and, on the other hand, to general philosophical scepticism, Herbert of Cherbury wrote De Veritate (On Truth) in an attempt to determine the character and circumstances of true understanding. In this work, first published in 1624, he sought to enable people to decide for themselves, by the use of their reason, what they ought to hold. According to his thesis the touchstone for such decisions is provided by certain fundamental truths, the ‘common notions’, which all people recognize to be true once they have become aware of them. In two later works, De Religione Gentilium (On the Religion of the Heathens) (1663) and A Dialogue between a Tutor and his Pupil (1768), both published after his death, Herbert attempted to show that his position is not falsified by the evidence of wide differences among religions. His other writings include an important history of Henry VIII based on research into state papers, an autobiography that tells the story of his life up to 1624, and some poems. While this courtier, adventurer and diplomat was something of a failure as a public figure, and while he is commonly held to have essayed views about innate notions that were to be refuted by Locke’s Essay, his writings provide pioneering studies in England in the genres of metaphysics, comparative religion and autobiography. Religiously he has been persistently maligned as ‘the father of English deism’ although closer consideration suggests that this reputation is not justified. He is, rather, to be considered an independent thinker who wanted to identify a form of religious belief that was rationally warranted and universally perceivable.

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