Vocalic quantity in The Sermon on the Direful Comet (1578) Cover Image

Vokalická kvantita v Kázaní o hrozné kométě (1578)
Vocalic quantity in The Sermon on the Direful Comet (1578)

Author(s): Veronika Vytlačilová
Subject(s): Historical Linguistics, Western Slavic Languages
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro jazyk český
Keywords: dialect;edition;language of the period of humanism;Melantrich;print;Šubar;Veleslavín;vocalic quantity;

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses vocalic quantity in the sermon by Valentin Šubar Lanškrounský which was published in 1578 under the collaboration of Daniel Adam ofVeleslavín and Jiří Melantrich of Aventyno in their printing workshop. The conjunction nébrž, which according to J. Porák has not appeared in print since the 1560s, can be found in The Sermon. The analysis further reflects the current discussion on the amount of influence the typographer had on the final visual form of the print, reaching the conclusion that the distribution of the variants <ů> and <uo> in The Sermon retains random character.

  • Issue Year: 100/2017
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 57-73
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Czech