An edition of The Dawn of Slavic
(1995)
The dawn of Slavic
an introduction to Slavic philology
by Alexander M. Schenker
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Table of Contents
Contents … vii
List of maps … xiii
Preface … xv
Note on transliteration and abbreviations … xix
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1. HISTORICAL SETTING
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1.1 In search of roots … 1
1.2 The autochthonous theory … 1
1.3 Material culture and language … 2
1.4 Were the Veneti Slavic … 3
1.5 Evidence of place and river names … 5
1.6 Classical sources … 5
1.7 Médos and strava … 6
1.8 The Danubian and mid-Dnieper theories … 6
1.9 The Indo-European homeland … 8
1.10 The Great Migrations. Jordanes’ testimony … 9
1.11 The Avars … 9
1.12 Constantinople and Christianity … 11
1.13 Europe after the Great Migrations … 12
1.14 Christianization of the Goths and of other Germanic tribes … 13
1.15 Christianization of the Celts and Anglo-Saxons … 13
1.16 The Franks … 14
1.17 Charlemagne and the Papacy … 14
1.18 The Slavs in the Balkans. Procopius’ testimony … 15
1.19 John of Ephesus’ testimony … 16
1.20 Emperor Maurice’s Strategikon … 16
1.21 Theophylact Simocatta’s History … 17
1.22 The siege of Constantinople in 626. The Paschal Chronicle … 18
1.23 The Croats and Serbs. Constantine Porphyrogenitus’ testimony … 19
1.24 The Bulgars. Theophanes the Confessor’s testimony … 19
1.25 Christianity among the Balkan Slavs … 21
1.26 Samo’s Slavic state in central Europe. Fredegar’s testimony … 21
1.27 The Alpine Slavs. Paul the Deacon’s testimony … 22
1.28 The Carantanian mission. The testimony of the Conversion Bagoariorum et Carantanorum … 23
1.29 The Aquileian mission. The Gospel of Cividale … 24
1.30 Moravia and Pannonia in the ninth century … 25
1.31 The Cyrillo-Methodian sources … 26
1.32 The early careers of Constantine and Methodius … 28
1.33 The mission to the Khazars … 29
1.34 The background of the Moravian mission … 30
1.35 The Constantinian period … 32
1.36 The Methodian period … 34
1.37 The testimony of papal correspondence … 36
1.38 Was the Moravian mission Byzantine or Roman? … 40
1.39 The Moravian debacle … 41
1.40 The legacy of the Moravian mission in Bulgaria … 42
1.41 From Moravia to Bohemia … 43
1.42 The northwestern Slavs. The testimony of Frankish and Saxon chronicles … 46
1.43 Religious beliefs of the northwestern Slavs as reported by Thietmar and Helmold … 48
1.44 Poland … 50
1.45 The eastern Slavs … 53
1.46 The Norsemen in eastern Europe … 54
1.47 The terms Rus’ and Russian … 57
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2. LANGUAGE … 61
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2.1 The historical comparative method and the concept of the proto-language … 61
2.2 Linguistic reconstruction and phonetic laws … 63
2.3 Indo-European languages and Proto-Indo-European … 65
2.4 Survey of the Indo-European languages … 66
2.5 Periodization of Proto-Slavic … 69
2.6 The problem of Balto-Slavic … 70
2.7 Survey of the Slavic languages … 70
2.8 Problems in phonological reconstruction … 75
2.9 Late Proto-Indo-European phonemic system … 77
2.10 Laryngeals … 77
2.11 Proto-Indo-European ablaut … 78
2.12 Loss of aspiration … 79
2.13 Treatment of velar stops … 80
2.14 Retroflexion of s … 80
2.15 Merger of ō and ā … 81
2.16 Phonemic inventory of Early Proto-Slavic … 82
2.17 Constraints on syllabic structure … 82
2.18 Elimination of word-final consonants … 82
2.19 Resolution of syllable-initial clusters … 82
2.20 Shifting of morhemic boundaries … 83
2.21 Rise of prothetic semivowels … 83
2.22 First palatization of velars … 83
2.23 Yodization … 84
2.24 Proto-Slavic consonant system … 85
2.25 Fronting of back vowels after soft consonants … 86
2.26 Monophthongization of diphthongs in i and u … 86
2.27 Backing of ē after soft consonants … 88
2.28 Rise of y … 88
2.29 Phonemic pitch and the new vowel system … 88
2.30 From Early to Late Proto-Slavic … 89
2.31 Second (regressive) and third (progressive) palatalization of velars … 89
2.32 The relative chronology of the palatalization of velars … 90
2.33 Clusters tl and dl … 92
2.34 Monophthongization of diphthongs in nasal sonants … 92
2.35 Resolution of diphthongs in liquid sonants … 93
2.36 Development of ť ď … 95
2.37 Word stress … 96
2.38 Strong and weak positions of short high vowels (jers) … 97
2.39 Rise of the neoacute … 98
2.40 Rise of qualitative distinctions in the vowel system … 99
2.41 Rise of new quantity oppositions … 100
2.42 Tense jers … 101
2.43 Phonemic status of i (j) and u (v) … 101
2.44 Phonemes of Late Proto-Slavic and their distribution … 102
2.45 Nouns versus verbs … 103
2.46 Grammatical categories … 104
2.47 Nominal stems … 106
2.48 Declensions … 123
2.49 Inflection of adjectives and numerals … 128
2.50 Verbal stems … 129
2.51 Verbal aspect … 134
2.52 Personal endings … 137
2.53 Present tense. Conjugations I and II … 138
2.54 Aorist … 140
2.55 Imperfect … 143
2.56 Imperative … 144
2.57 Infinitive and supine … 145
2.58 Participles … 145
2.59 Compound verbal categories … 148
2.60 Verbal substantive … 148
2.61 Syntactic reconstruction … 149
2.62 Syntactic constructions … 150
2.63 Use of cases … 153
2.64 Word order … 154
2.65 Composition of the wordstock … 155
2.66 Lexical borrowing … 159
2.67 Grammatical productivity … 161
2.68 Grammatical analogy … 161
2.69 Late Proto-Slavic dialect isoglosses … 162
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3. EARLY WRITING … 165
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3.1 Paleography … 165
3.2 Slavic alphabets … 165
3.3 The genealogy of Glagolitic … 166
3.4 Glagolitic and Cyrillic letters … 167
3.5 Slavic writing before the Moravian mission … 172
3.6 The testimony of the monk Khrabr … 173
3.7 Unsystematic Slavic adaptations of Greek and Latin alphabets … 174
3.8 The “Russian” letters in the Vita Constantini … 176
3.9 The abecedarium from St. Sophia in Kiev … 176
3.10 The origin of the terms Glagolitic and Cyrillic … 177
3.11 Why was Glagolitic introduced? … 177
3.12 The locale of Glagolitic … 178
3.13 The precedence of Glagolitic … 179
3.14 Digraphs and ligatures … 180
3.15 Abbreviations … 181
3.16 Numerals … 182
3.17 Dates … 183
3.18 Punctuation and diacritics … 183
3.19 Styles of handwriting … 183
3.20 Physical description of manuscripts … 184
3.21 Writing materials … 184
3.22 Palimpsests … 185
3.23 The term Old Church Slavonic … 185
3.24 Old Church Slavonic and Proto-Slavic … 186
3.25 The periodization of Old Church Slavonic … 187
3.26 The Ohrid and Preslav schools … 188
3.27 The canon of Old Church Slavonic … 189
3.28 Old Church Slavonic and Church Slavonic … 190
3.29 Local recensions of Church Slavonic … 190
3.30 (Old) Church Slavonic literary community … 193
3.31 Translations versus original works … 194
3.32 Authors and authorship … 196
3.33 Constantine and Methodius … 197
3.34 Clement of Ohrid … 198
3.35 Constantine of Preslav … 198
3.36 John the Exarch … 199
3.37 Textual criticism … 199
3.38 Early Slavic texts … 200
3.39 Biblical texts … 201
3.40 Apocrypha and pseudoepigrapha … 201
3.41 Liturgical an paraliturgical texts … 202
3.42 Fourfold Gospels … 209
3.43 Biblical exegeses … 210
3.44 Homiletic texts … 211
3.45 Miscellanies and florilegia … 213
3.46 Hagiography … 214
3.47 Hymnography and other poetic works … 216
3.48 Monasticism … 222
3.49 Learning … 224
3.50 Historiography … 228
3.51 Legal texts … 232
3.52 Epistolary literature and correspondence … 234
3.53 Epigraphic texts … 235
3.54 Glosses … 237
3.55 Place and personal names … 238
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4. APPENDICES … 241
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A. Rise of Slavic philology … 241
B. Chronological table … 253
C. Orthodox Church calendar … 258
D. Samples of early Slavic writing … 261
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Bibliography … 303
Index … 337
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-335) and index.
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