New Data on the History of the Old Bulgarian Language in the Epigraphic Writing of the First Bulgarian Kingdom Cover Image
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Новые данные по истории древнеболгарского языка в эпиграфике Первого болгарского царства
New Data on the History of the Old Bulgarian Language in the Epigraphic Writing of the First Bulgarian Kingdom

Author(s): Roman Krivko
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Кирило-Методиевски научен център при Българска академия на науките
Keywords: Old Bulgarian language; Old Bulgarian epigraphy; historical morphology of Old Bulgarian; historical syntax of Old Bulgarian.

Summary/Abstract: The article describes several rare linguistic phenomena observed in earliest Old Bulgarian inscriptions: (1) the sign for palatal consonants in the Temnić inscription which testifies to palatal accomodation of the liquid consonant l to the preceding velar k, (2) in the Bitola inscription, different rools of the use of letters for jers showing the work of two different scribes, (3) ending -i in a compound numeral twelfth ‘12’ otherwise known only in two manuscripts of the 11th c., (4) the construction in + acc of nomen abstractum in the sence of a mode of action, and, in the Krepča inscription n° 2, (5) accusative form summer ‘year’ indicating a specific point in the past (the form lěto ‘year’ with the same function occurs in a few eastern Slavic sources of younger date).

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 33
  • Page Range: 63-80
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Russian