The Slavonic Languages (Routledge Language Family Series)

1093 Pages·1993·50.575 MB·

by  Bernard Comrie, Greville G. Corbett

THE SLAVONIC
LANGUAGES

THE
SLAVONIC
LANGUAGES
EDITED BY
Bernard Comrie
and
Greville G. Corbett
R
LONDON AND NEW YORK
First published in 1993
by Routledge
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Selection and editorial matter © 1993 Bernard Comrie and Greville G. Corbett
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Abbreviations viii
Notes on symbols xi
Transliteration from Cyrillic xii
1 Introduction 1
Bernard Comrie, University of Southern California
and Greville G. Corbett, University of Surrey
2 Alphabets and transliteration 20
Paul Cubberley, University of Melbourne
3 Proto-Slavonic 60
Alexander M. Schenker, Yale University
SOUTH SLAVONIC LANGUAGES
4 Old Church Slavonic 125
David Huntley, University of Toronto
5 Bulgarian 188
Ernest A. Scatton, State University of New York,
Albany
6 Macedonian 249
Victor A. Friedman, University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill
7 Serbo-Croat 306
Wayles Browne, Cornell University
8 Slovene 388
T.M.S. Priestly, University of Alberta
vi CONTENTS
WEST SLAVONIC LANGUAGES
9 Czech 455
David Short, University of London
10 Slovak 533
David Short, University of London
11 Sorbian 593
Gerald Stone, University of Oxford
12 Polish 686
Robert A. Rothstein, University of Massachusetts,
Amherst
13 Cassubian 759
Gerald Stone, University of Oxford
14 Polabian 795
Kazimierz Polański, Jagiellonian University, Cracow
EAST SLAVONIC LANGUAGES
15 Russian 827
Alan Timberlake, University of California, Berkeley
16 Belorussian 887
Peter Mayo, University of Sheffield
17 Ukrainian 947
George Y. Shevelov, Columbia University
18 Slavonic Languages in Emigration 999
Roland Sussex, University of Queensland
Index 1037
Acknowledgements
We wish to thank Veronica Du Feu for her invaluable assistance in the
early stages of preparation of this volume. The Max-Planck-Institut fur
Psycholinguistik provided support to Bernard Comrie in the summer of
1990, which made possible an editorial meeting between the two editors
that greatly facilitated the writing of chapter 1. We are grateful to the
editorial staff at Routledge for their continuing willingness to consult with
us on all details of the preparation of this volume; particular thanks are due
to Jonathan Price, Shan Millie, Alex Clark, Jenny Potts, Meg Davies and
Robert Potts.
Chapter 13, Cassubian: Gerald Stone would like to thank Professor E.
Breza and Dr J. Treder, both of the University of Gdańsk, and Professor
H. Popowska-Taborska, of the Polish Academy of Sciences, for their valu-
able comments on a draft of this chapter. The important contribution of
many other colleagues is recorded at the end of the relevant chapters.
Abbreviations
ABL ablative
ACC accusative
ACT active
AN animate
AOR aorist
AUX auxiliary
Bel. Belorussian
Bg. Bulgarian
Cass. Cassubian
COLL collective
COND conditional
Cz. Czech
DAT dative
DEF definite
DET determinate
DIMIN diminutive
DISTR distributive
DU dual
EMPH emphatic
EPS1. Early Proto-Slavonic
F feminine
FREQ frequentative
FUT future
GEN genitive
GER gerund
ABBREVIATIONS ix
honorific
HON
human
HUM
imperative
IMP
imperfect
IMPF
IMPFV imperfective
inanimate
INAN
IND(EF) indefinite
INDET indeterminate
INF infinitive
INST instrumental
INT interrogative, question
INTNS intensifier
IPA International Phonetic Assc
ITR intransitive
LOC locative
LPIE Late Proto-Indo-European
LPS1. Late Proto-SIavonic
LSo. Lower Sorbian
M masculine
Mac. Macedonian
N neuter
NEG negative
NOM nominative
O(BJ) object (personal verb affix)
ocs Old Church Slavonic
OPT optative
PART participle
PASS passive
PAST past
PERS personal
PIE Proto-Indo-European
PL plural
Po. Polish
Polab. Polabian
PRF perfect
PRFV perfective
PRS present
PRT preterite