With All Due Respect, on Slavic Abstracts in -y: The History of Proto-Slavic cěty ‘respect’ and Some Comparative Notes on its Congeners (ljuby ‘love’, cěly ‘healing, greeting’)*
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Abstract:
The scarcely attested Proto-Slavic *cěty *-ъve ‘respect’ appears to be a mostly overlooked member of the small class of abstracts in *-y *-ъve; no precise accounts of the noun’s origin have been proposed so far. Two complementary approaches are put forth in the article: 1) inheritance from a PIE animate s-stem *keyt-ōs >> *koyt-ōs (paralleling a recent analysis of *ljuby ‘love’ < PIE *lewbh-ōs as well as its presumed secondary association with a verb in *-i-ti) or 2) inner-Slavic origin based on the formally similar *ljuby ‘love’ and *cěly ‘healing (subst.)’. The study also offers novel analyses—based on hitherto unexploited philological and lexicographical data—concerning various related issues (e.g., the status of PSl nominal *cětъ, verbal *cětiti, and personal names in *Cěto/i-; the adposition *cětja; the semantic and pragmatic developments in *cěly ‘greeting, kiss’; the secondary rise of masculine *cělovъ/*cělyvъ ‘kiss’) with the purpose of integrating the entirety of the material concerning the root *cět- and the abstract type in *-y *-ъve into coherent pictures.
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Journal of Slavic Linguistics, or JSL, is the official journal of the Slavic Linguistics Society. JSL publishes research articles and book reviews that address the description and analysis of Slavic languages and that are of general interest to linguists. Published papers deal with any aspect of synchronic or diachronic Slavic linguistics – phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, or pragmatics – which raises substantive problems of broad theoretical concern or proposes significant descriptive generalizations. Comparative studies and formal analyses are also published. Different theoretical orientations are represented in the journal. One volume (two issues) is published per year, ca. 360 pp.