КОНСТАНТИН ПЕТКОВИЧ И БЪЛГАРСКОТО ЕЗИКОЗНАНИЕ
KONSTANTIN PETKOVICH AND BULGARIAN LINGUISTICS
Author(s): Liliya Ilieva, Galina NikodimovaSubject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Институт за български език „Проф. Любомир Андрейчин“, Българска академия на науките
Keywords: Konstantin Petkovich; Bulgarian National Revival; classification of Bulgarian dialects; Balkan linguistics
Summary/Abstract: The article explores the contributions to linguistics made by Konstantin Petkovich (1824–1898), the first university-educated Bulgarian philologist, a graduate of St. Pe¬ters¬burg University, and offers a review of his lexicographical works, the most signi¬ficant of them being his unfinished Bulgarian-Russian Dictionary, which remained un¬published by him. The study focuses on Konstantin Petkovich’s views on the Bulgarian language as reflected in the translator’s notes to his 1852 Russian translation of Franc Miklosič’s work Lautlehre der Bulgarischen Sprache. In his notes, Petkovich sketched the main features of the classification of the Bulgarian dialects, outlined the Bulgarian linguistic territory and provided comparisons between Bulgarian grammatical forms and forms in Modern Greek and Romanian. He was, thus, the second linguist after Jernej Kopitar to compare forms in neighbouring Balkan languages.
Journal: Български език
- Issue Year: 67/2020
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 27-44
- Page Count: 18
- Language: Bulgarian