К ВОПРОСУ О ПАДЕНИИ РЕДУЦИРОВАННЫХ ГЛАСНЫХ В ДРЕВНЕРУССКОМ ЯЗЫКЕ: ХРОНОЛОГИЯ, ФОНОЛОГИЧЕСКИЙ МЕХАНИЗМ, ОТРАЖЕНИЕ В ПАМЯТНИКАХ
ON THE FALL OF REDUCED VOWELS IN THE OLD RUSSIAN LANGUAGE: CHRONOLOGY, PHONOLOGICAL MECHANISM, REFLECTION IN WRITTEN RECORDS
Author(s): Mihail Borisovich PopovSubject(s): History, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Middle Ages, Phonetics / Phonology, Historical Linguistics, Eastern Slavic Languages, 13th to 14th Centuries, Philology
Published by: Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет
Keywords: Old Russian language; historical phonology; fall of reduced vowels; absolutely weak positions; liturgical pronunciation; new jat;
Summary/Abstract: The paper is focused on some controversial issues of relative and absolute chronology concerning the fall of reduced vowels in the Old Russian dialects, as well as peculiarities of its phonological mechanism. The phonological theory and Old Russian written records of the 12th century support the view on new jat (ѣ) phonologization before the fall of the weak reduced vowel in the next syllable. Based on the contrasting graphemes of е, о and ь, ъ in the manuscripts of the 13th–14th centuries, the idea of rather late (after the change of strong reduced vowels in [e] and [o]) disappearance of reduced vowels as phonemes is developed. The mixed concept of “absolutely weak position”, which is ambiguously estimated in paleo-Russian studies, is discussed in the context of V.M. Markov’s hypothesis of non-etymological reduced vowels as a trigger of their fall.
Journal: Ученые записки Казанского университета. Серия Гуманитарные науки
- Issue Year: 157/2015
- Issue No: 5
- Page Range: 47-67
- Page Count: 21
- Language: Russian