The Science of Language and the History of the National Literary Languages (A Brief Outline of the History of 𝑆𝑙𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑎 𝑂𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑥𝑎) Cover Image

Науката за езика и историята на книжовните езици (Някои щрихи от историята на Slavia Orthodoxa)
The Science of Language and the History of the National Literary Languages (A Brief Outline of the History of 𝑆𝑙𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑎 𝑂𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑥𝑎)

Author(s): Milena Obretenova
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: Noam Chomsky; deep structures; Old Bulgarian language; literary language history

Summary/Abstract: The article is centered around the problem of language as a reflection of intellectual phylogeny. Its development is the transition from the primary genetic deep structures of the spoken language to the secondary, cultural deep structures of literary language. The diachronic tracing of the stylistically differentiated surface structures fixed in literature in their cause-and-effect relationship is the authentic history of the literary language. The new methodology of its study, proposed by the author, is practically justified by basic facts from the development of the Bulgarian literary language.

  • Issue Year: 32/2023
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 183-201
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: English, Bulgarian