{"title":"A Case of Pragmaticalization in Russian: Micro-diachronic Analysis of the Particle ‘že’ in Questions","authors":"O. Pekelis","doi":"10.31168/2305-6754.2020.9.1.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2305-6754.2020.9.1.12","url":null,"abstract":"Že is one of the most closely studied particles in Russian, but its use within interrogative sentences, although it is a separate type of use, has not been investigated in detail. In this paper, I deal with the semantic and syntactic properties of že as part of a constituent or a polar question in the 18th–19th centuries and in modern usage. Based on the Russian National Corpus data, it is demonstrated that, in modern texts, že can appear in questions in four different meanings, each of them pragmatically coloured, whereas in the 19th century and earlier, že could also have a pragmatically neutral meaning, close to a conjunctive one, which has today been lost. This diachronic development corresponds to a typologically widespread scenario and represents the process known as pragmaticalization. The proposed semantic analysis of že is further considered in the light of syntactic tendencies in the evolution of this particle. This analysis can explain the absence of že in the polar questions in modern Russian and its presence in such types of questions in the Russian language of the 18th–19th centuries. The assumption that že has lost its conjunctive-like meaning in interrogative sentences is consistent with the observation that the conjunctive že is the less frequent type of že in declarative sentences. DOI: 10.31168/2305-6754.2020.9.1.12","PeriodicalId":42189,"journal":{"name":"Slovene-International Journal of Slavic Studies","volume":"75 1","pages":"340-361"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80654466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Catalogues of Private Libraries from the First Half of the 18th Century: Materials from Empress Elizabeth’s Confiscation Commission (1742–43)","authors":"Anastasiia S. Lystsova, I. Poliakov","doi":"10.31168/2305-6754.2020.9.1.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2305-6754.2020.9.1.16","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents a catalogue of books from the private libraries of counts A. I. Osterman, M. G. Golovkin, B.-Ch. Minnich, and baron K. L. Mengden. These books were confiscated after the coup d’etat (25 November 1741) as a part of their property and then were transferred to the Library of the Academy of Sciences in accordance with Empress Elizabeth’s order in 1742–43. On 1 December 1741, «The record Commission for Osterman’s and others’ movable property, villages and debt obligations» was established. One of its tasks was to allocate the books to different institutions such as the Collegium of Foreign Affairs and the Library of the Academy of Sciences. The rest of the books were sold. The religious books belonging to A. I. Osterman and M. G. Golovkin were given to the Church of the Resurrection in the grounds of Pokrov Palace in Moscow. DOI: 10.31168/2305-6754.2020.9.1.16","PeriodicalId":42189,"journal":{"name":"Slovene-International Journal of Slavic Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"423-474"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80619138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Polemics of F. Sologub with Realism (F. Sologub and A. P. Chekhov)","authors":"V. Filicheva","doi":"10.31168/2305-6754.2020.9.1.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2305-6754.2020.9.1.11","url":null,"abstract":"The paper analyzes the statements of Fyodor Sologub (both in periodical journalism and in belles-lettres) about the works of Anton Chekhov, examined in the context of the writer's ideas about the place of his own creativity in the literary process. There is a number of allusions and references to Chekhov’s name in the texts of Sologub that had not previously attracted the attention of researchers. Though Sologub had introduced Chekhov’s works into the circle of literature that followed the Tolstoy tradition, he at the same time argued with both authors. Having called Chekhov’s story A Man in the Case in his own novel The Petty Demon , Sologub set the vector for the perception of his own works. However, he was misunderstood by contemporary critics, who only compared Sologub and Chekhov, as well as other writers of a realistic direction, in respect to the contents of their works. Meanwhile, on the pages of Sologub's prose, a debate unfolds not only with the basic postulate of the “philosophy of hope”, but also with the form of the narrative. An analysis of the story The Troubled Day , whose characters openly debate Leo Tolstoy’s ideas, is carried out in the paper. One can conclude, based on it, that Sologub actually disagrees with both Tolstoy and Chekhov at the same time, in their approaches both to the topic of death and to creative method, meaning the point of view of an omniscient narrator, the latter being more polemical in relation to Chekhov than to Tolstoy. DOI: 10.31168/2305-6754.2020.9.1.11","PeriodicalId":42189,"journal":{"name":"Slovene-International Journal of Slavic Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"322-339"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86213456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Vinogradov, Aleхey A. Gippius, Natallia A. Kiziukevich
{"title":"The Inscription on a Brick from Grodno (Ps 45: 6) in the Context of Byzantine-Russian Epigraphic Links","authors":"A. Vinogradov, Aleхey A. Gippius, Natallia A. Kiziukevich","doi":"10.31168/2305-6754.2020.9.1.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2305-6754.2020.9.1.15","url":null,"abstract":"The authors publish a unique inscription with the second half-verse of Psalm 45: 6 on а 12th century brick from the excavations of the “Mernaya izba” on the Castle hill of Hrodna (Grodno; Republic of Belarus). The tradition of writing Psalm 45: 6 in church buildings goes back to the Early Byzantine period and is associated with its “apotropaic” character, which should protect the building from earthquakes. From the middle Byzantine period Psalm 45: 6 is known to also appear on bricks. A great role in this tradition was played by the “Diegesis about the Great church”, according to which Psalm 45: 6 was written by order of Justinian on the plinth bricks of Hagia Sophia. From Byzantium, this tradition came to Rus’, where we see Psalm 45: 6 written, on the one hand, in Greek on the mosaic above the apse of St. Sophia in Kiev, and on the other hand, in Slavonic on a plinth brick from a church in Hrodna dating from the second half of the 12th century. DOI: 10.31168/2305-6754.2020.9.1.15","PeriodicalId":42189,"journal":{"name":"Slovene-International Journal of Slavic Studies","volume":"46 1","pages":"412-422"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74017673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From ‘Nations’ to ‘Archontias’ (I) ‘Sclavinia’ and ‘Sclavoarchontia’: Terms and Chronology","authors":"S. Stoykov","doi":"10.31168/2305-6754.2020.9.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2305-6754.2020.9.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"This article deals with the terms ‘Sclavinia’ and ‘Sclavoarchontia’, which are used in historiography in different and even contradictory ways, and aims to clarify a highly complicated topic, investigating the ways these terms were used by contemporaries, trying to define differences between them and connecting their use with the political changes of the time. Topics discussed include the chronology of the terms’ usage, different ways in which they were being used, relations of ‘Sclavinia’ and ‘Sclavoarchontia’ with the Empire, their appearance and disappearance and the political processes connected with it, as well as the analysis of the existing interpretations. The first part mostly discusses chronology and some existing hypotheses. The second (and the main) part analyses the way these terms were used and tries to define them. The hypothesis presented connects these terms with the re-establishing of imperial authority in the Balkans, marked in the sources by replacing the term ‘Slavic nations’, which had been used until the late 8 century to denote the independent Balkan Slavic societies and their lands. The Empire lacked the capacity for direct subjugation of the independent Slavic communities and was forced to rely on complicated measures including colonization and ensuring Slav cooperation in the process. In the themes where the Empire had enough power, Slavic communities were organized as ‘Sclavoarchontias’, who received archons from the strategos, paid collective tribute and served as symahoi, but kept some inner autonomy. The Empire also tended to ensure the cooperation of Slavic communities around themes by granting titles and subsidies to some powerful Slavic leaders, which led to the creation of client states known as ‘Sclavinias’. They were not part of the thematic system, they had their native and hereditary leaders recognized and affirmed by the emperor by titles and seals and act as imperial allies. A prototype of both had appeared at the end of the 7th c., but only when relations of such types had multiplied after Stauracius’ expedition in 783, corresponding generic terms appeared and became regular. DOI: 10.31168/2305-6754.2020.9.1.1","PeriodicalId":42189,"journal":{"name":"Slovene-International Journal of Slavic Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"7-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74539245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Manuscripts from the Radoslav M. Grujić Collection in the Museum of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Belgrade","authors":"D. Polonski","doi":"10.31168/23056754.2020.9.1.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/23056754.2020.9.1.18","url":null,"abstract":"[Rev. of: Mošin V.A., Vasiljev Lj., Bogdanović D., Grozdanović-Pajić M., Manuscripts of the Museum of the Serbian Оrthodox Church: Collection of Radoslav M. Grujić, Book 1: Archeographic description, Vol. 1, Belgrade: Retro print, 2017, 270 pp., illustr. — (Description of South Slavic Cyrillic manuscripts, Vol. 7) — (in Serbian)]\u0000\u0000The article discusses the first issue of the catalogue titled “Manuscripts of the Museum of the Serbian Orthodox Church: Collection of Radoslav M. Grujić”. This manuscript collection, which serves as the basis of the manuscript corpus in the Belgrade museum, was gathered by Radoslav M. Grujić, an outstanding Serbian historian, whose name it now bears. A large project aimed at detailed analytical description of Grujić′s Collection was initiated more than half a century ago by Vladimir Mošin, the founder of the Serbian school in medieval palaeography and diplomatics. Most of the two hundred manuscripts from the 14th–19th centuries described in the catalogue are now presented for the first time in the edition under review. Many of these manuscripts are not only important as valuable sources for the study of Serbian culture but will also foster new research on the history of inter-Slavic and other European connections. The book is of great interest to historians, philologists, theologians, as well as to archivists.","PeriodicalId":42189,"journal":{"name":"Slovene-International Journal of Slavic Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47568304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The 15th-century Synodal Hexameron (Shestodnevets)","authors":"T. V. Anisimova","doi":"10.31168/2305-6754.2020.9.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2305-6754.2020.9.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"The article is devoted to the textual analysis and publication of the short Hexameron, titled Shestodnevets , which became part of the Miscellany from the Synodal collection in the State Historical museum (No. 951). An archaeographical description of the manuscript (dated to around 1460) is given; it is noted that 13 folios from it are now in the Miscellany from the V. M. Undolsky collection (RSL, col. 310, No. 562). The analysis of the Shestodnevets showed that the source for its initial part was the prototype of the Sofiisky chronograph, which had a more elaborate form compared to that conserved in manuscripts. The rest of the text is based on the Palaea Interpretata and “The Word about the Creation of Heaven and Earth”, which is a part of another brief chronograph, Parenios . An attempt to trace the history of the spread of “The Word …” in the Old Russian literature revealed its use as an introduction to the illuminated Palaea Interpretata of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, the initial part of which is now largely lost. It turned out that a copy of these pages, in addition to two well-known 16th-century copies, is copied from the “Word …” in a manuscript of the Trinity-Sergius monastery, dated to the end of the 14th or the beginning of the 15th century (RSL, сol. 304/I, No. 39). Four more copies of the same text were also identified. A version of the “Word about the Creation of Heaven and Earth” is also used in the “Word about the Existence of the Whole World”, where the story of the six days, starting with the narrative of Cain and Abel, is supplemented by the “Speech of the philosopher” from the The Tale of Bygone Years. The Synodal Shestodnevets has textual features of “The Word about the Creation of Heaven and Earth” in the Parenios version, but it also contains individual additional fragments from the Book of Enoch. In conclusion, the importance of the Shestodnevets for our knowledge about the book repertoire and the guiding principles of Old Russian authors working on Palaea compilations in the middle of the XV century is underlined. Another significant result is the acquisition of new data on the content and the terminus ante quem for the Sofiisky chronograph’s archetype, the earliest copy of which dates from the 1530s. DOI: 10.31168/2305-6754.2020.9.1.4","PeriodicalId":42189,"journal":{"name":"Slovene-International Journal of Slavic Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":"110-134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80351872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The True and Fake Names of Boris Godunov","authors":"Anna F. Litvina, F. Uspenskij","doi":"10.31168/2305-6754.2020.9.1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2305-6754.2020.9.1.7","url":null,"abstract":"This paper takes a new look at the “anthroponymical dossier” of Boris Godunov and his family. Insufficient familiarity with the structure of the Medieval Russian polyonymy (that is, the practice of using many names for the same person) has been known to lead not only to the introduction of redundant and never-existing people to research papers, but also to real people taking redundant, imaginary names, which they did not and often could not have taken in reality. This paper takes a look at both the names the tsar had, without a doubt, and the names under which he existed in previous research ( Boris, Bogolep, Iakov, Bogdan, Theodot ). Special attention is given to the personal patron saints’ cult in Godunov’s family, mostly to St. Theodotus. Some problems of attribution and dating of several artifacts are raised. DOI: 10.31168/2305-6754.2020.9.1.7","PeriodicalId":42189,"journal":{"name":"Slovene-International Journal of Slavic Studies","volume":"9 1","pages":"185-231"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82486950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Dizionario di italianismi in russo” by Ettore Gherbezza","authors":"Marina A. Bobrik","doi":"10.31168/2305-6754.2020.9.1.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2305-6754.2020.9.1.17","url":null,"abstract":"[Rev. of:] Ettore Gherbezza. Dizionario di italianismi in russo (= Biblioteca Ambrosiana. Fonti e studi. 32). Milano: Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Centro Ambrosiano, 2019. 377 p.","PeriodicalId":42189,"journal":{"name":"Slovene-International Journal of Slavic Studies","volume":"170 1","pages":"475-487"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75120959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Necessity of a Multiple-viewpoint Analysis of Aspectual Opposition","authors":"L. Jaszay","doi":"10.31168/2305-6754.2020.9.1.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2305-6754.2020.9.1.13","url":null,"abstract":"In the first part of the paper, the aspectual opposition of the Russian verb is analyzed both as a privative and as an equipollent opposition, taking into account two different levels of approach: an abstract approach of the semantic invariant and a specific relation to contextual meanings. On this basis, the types of cases of the so-called strong and weak opposition are explained, as well as the trivial positions of aspects. In the second part special attention is given to the peculiarities of the basic semantic types of aspectual pairs that have arisen under the influence the verbal lexical meaning character. According to the conception put up by the author, the types distinguished are 1) telic/boundedpairs, 2) pairs with relative boundary of the perfective action, 3) trivial pairs, 4) pairs with perfective meaning, 5) pairs with multiplicative-semelfactive relation and 6) delimitative pairs. DOI: 10.31168/2305-6754.2020.9.1.13","PeriodicalId":42189,"journal":{"name":"Slovene-International Journal of Slavic Studies","volume":"5 1","pages":"362-380"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74721276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}