THE RACZYNSKIS’ CHRONICLE AS A 16TH-CENTURY MONUMENT OF THE GRAND DUCHY OF LITHUANIA ANNALS (LINGUISTIC CHARACTERISTIC) Cover Image

LATOPIS RACZYŃSKICH JAKO XVI-WIECZNY ZABYTEK LATOPISARSTWA WIELKIEGO KSIĘSTWA LITEWSKIEGO (CHARAKTERYSTYKA JĘZYKOWA)
THE RACZYNSKIS’ CHRONICLE AS A 16TH-CENTURY MONUMENT OF THE GRAND DUCHY OF LITHUANIA ANNALS (LINGUISTIC CHARACTERISTIC)

Author(s): Katarzyna Grabowska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: literature of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania; Belorussian-Lithuanian chronicles; the Old Belarusian language; phonetics

Summary/Abstract: This article analyzes phonetic phenomena found in one of the monuments of OldBelorussian writing. In the Raczynskis’ Chronicle, representing the second compilationof Belorussian-Lithuanian chronicles, all-Ruthenian characteristics prevail, as well asWest-Ruthenian linguistic elements, which are not always consistently realized. Marginalauthentication was obtained by the characteristics being grounded in the phoneticsof the Polish language and borrowings from Old Church Slavonic.

  • Issue Year: 2/2017
  • Issue No: XIX
  • Page Range: 19-28
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish