"Nebibliografinë" Jono Bretkûno Postilë (1591): Vlado Daumanto egzempliorius

Author(s): Ona Aleknavičienė / Language(s): Lithuanian / Issue: 06/2004

In this article I describe the copy of Jonas Bretkûnas' Postilla (1591), which is kept in the Kaunas Art Gallery of Mykolas Žilinskas (this is a division of the National Art Museum of Mikalojus Konstantinas Èiurlionis), in the section of Archival Documents and Photographs (call number: Tkr. 148). Until 1944 the copy was kept in the private collection of Vladas Daumantas. For a certain period after World War Two it was unknown to scholars. The copy was included neither in the Lithuanian Bibliography (Lietuvos TSR bibliografija, 1969; LB I), nor in the supplement volume (Papildymai, 1990; LBP). This is the tenth copy of Bretkûnas' Postilla kept in Lithuania. Daumantas' copy is not defective, but is in good condition. There are, however, certain errors of pagination. Certain circumstances attest that this copy was the property of Vladas Daumantas: (1) an inscription in purple pencil on the title page "VDaumantas" (cf. Fig. 1); (2) an inscription "VDaumanto kolekcija" in the accession book of the Art Museum of Mikalojus Konstantinas Èiurlionis; (3) a description of the Postilla in the manuscripts by Petras Jakðtas (a contemporary of Daumantas; they both were members of the 27 Book Lovers Society).

"U Doni Gjoni, biri i Bdek Buzukut ...” (Edhe një herë për prejardhjen e emrave Buzuk-u dhe Bdek-u)

Author(s): David Luka / Language(s): Albanian / Issue: 01-02/2015

In this essay/article, after introducing briefly the ideas expressed by various linguists on the matter in question, the author throws into discussion two issues: the origine of the patronymic Buzuku, as well as the origine of the name of Gjon’s father (Bdek), giving thus his contribution. He thinks that the two names, Buzuk and Buzuq, are nominal compounds. There is no doubt that the first part of these compounds is the noun buz/ë/(lip/s), but with the meaning ‘brink, border, bank’. It seems that with this meaning, are especially linked the toponyms and micro-toponyms, numerous throughout all the toponomastic nomenclature in our country, which come out since early times in various medieval documents to our days. The second part of Buzuk/Buzuq is the name Ujk (wolf), which appears since early in documents as personal name. It seems, then, that in Buzuk as well as in Buzuq, we have a compounding or a juxtaposition of two nouns, which originally named a place, buzë ‘brink’, where there were wolves, this perhaps in connection to some occurrence, now petrified in the micro-toponym Bazulk (respectively Buzuk). Later the noun must have been used as a patronym; over time it may have passed also to the naming of the village according to the name of the kin holding it. We are then within that circle which E. Çabej calls ‘the system of Albanian anthroponomy’.

"Vita et mores Gregorii Sanocei" von Callimachus – eine anekdotische Biografie aus der Renaissancezeit

Author(s): Przemysław Chudzik / Language(s): German / Issue: 1/2019

Aim: The aim of the article is to look at the first Renaissance biography written in Poland – Life of Gregory of Sanok by Callimachus. Research method: A compositional analysis was carried out and anecdotes appearing in the work were pointed out. Anecdotes are one of the key elements of ancient biography, which Callimachus directly referred to. Results/Conclusions: The analysis carried out in this way not only shows the Renaissance reception of ancient patterns, but also the use of anecdotes, which has not changed since ancient times. Callimachus’ work has a two-part structure - the first part refers to the tradition of Plutarch's biography, which is chronological; the other, however, follows the thematic pattern of Suetonius' biography. Anecdotes appearing in the work perform all the functions they performed in ancient works - they successfully carry out their tasks in new circumstances and with a new hero - a fifteenth-century Polish magnate.

A Korvin-könyvtár Plinius-kódexe és a korabeli Plinius-ősnyomtatványok illuminációi

Author(s): Tamás Gesztelyi / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2013

A Lost Lady: A Narrative of Manifest Destiny and Neocolonialism

Author(s): Ammar Aqeeli / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

The greatly examined story of A Lost Lady usually depicts Mrs. Forrester’s success in meeting and adapting to the challenges of a changing world, a world characterized by materialism and self-fulfilment. However, the overlooked story, one far more disturbing than the privileged story in the text, is the narrative of oppressed groups of people of other races and the lower class. Drawing on some aspects of postcolonial theory, this paper explores Willa Cather’s own reactions to real changes in her society, to the waning power of imperialism, and of her nostalgic longing for the western prairies of her youth, without showing any sympathy for the dispossessed Native Americans and other oppressed races. It will also disclose the unmistakable colonial overtones, which remarkably resonate with the common discourse of “Manifest Destiny” during the time period of American expansion to the Wild West.

A moldvai csángó nyelvi revitalizációs folyamatok kutatása. Közösen értelmezett tudások, részvételiség és bevonás

Author(s): Csanád Bodó,Veronika Lajos / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 09/2020

In this article we introduce our fouryear long interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research project (2019- 2023). In the project we investigate the ways students living in a dormitory in Miercurea-Ciuc (Csíkszereda), Romania supported by the Moldavian Csángó Hungarian Educational Programme find their place in the Hungarianspeaking Transylvanian city; the ways they relate to their original home in Moldavia and the ways they interact between each other when using different linguistic and non-linguistic practices of belonging, identifying and differentiating themselves. First we introduce the research topic, then the objectives of the project and the proposed plan to carry out the research based on the principle of participation and engagement. Since the COVID-19 pandemic reached Romania and Hungary in March 2020 we also pose some questions regarding the possibilities of carrying out a participatory research in the field in the current situation.

Album hrvatske ćirilice u Zbirci rukopisa i starih knjiga Nacionalne i sveučilišne knjižnice u Zagrebu

Author(s): Nina Čolović / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 2/2019

Review of: Nina Čolović - Ivan Kosić, Album hrvatske ćirilice u Zbirci rukopisa i starih knjiga Nacionalne i sveučilišne knjižnice u Zagrebu, Zagreb: Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica, 2015, 396 str.

Analele Universității ”Dunărea de Jos din Galați, Lexic comun / Lexic specializat

Frequency: 2 issues / Country: Romania

Annals of “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galati, Fascicle XXIV General Lexicon / Specialized Lexicon is a refereed academic journal of humanities, focused on linguistics, language history, vocabulary and culture, language studies, philology, translation studies, communication studies, cultural history, cultural anthropology, terminology and didactics. The first issue of the journal was published in 2008 by the Faculty of Letters, “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galati. The journal also publishes the scientific papers which are communicated at the international conference Lexic comun / lexic specializat. General Lexicon / Specialized Lexicon. Lexique commun / Lexique spécialisé which has been hosted by the Faculty of Letters, “Dunărea de Jos” University of Galati ever since 2008. Even if we are a Romanian journal of linguistics, the editorial board has a wide perspective towards the lexical level of any language, the interest in the movement of ideas in the field of lexicology and lexicography, as well the in the international promotion of the Romanian contributions. For this purpose the paper publication languages should mainly be Romanian, English, French, but contributions in Spanish, German or Italian are also accepted.

ANDALUŽANSKA GRAMATIČKA ŠKOLA

Author(s): Hajrudin Hodžić / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 11/2019

The Andalusian Grammar School is one of the series of grammar schools that has enriched Arabic linguistics and left an indelible mark on its further development. After the arrival of the Arabs in Andalusia, due to its specific geographical location, there was a need to study Arabic and all disciplines related to it. Although living far away from scientific centers in the Arab East, the Andalusians became recognizable for their characteristic views and commentary on numerous capital works, but also on works that originated in Granada, Cordoba and Seville, greatly enriching the Arab library. The paper presents the circumstances in which this school was created, outlines the most significant characteristics and attitudes of this school, as well as the most significant protagonists of the Andalusian school and their contribution to the development of Arabic grammar in general.

Augusta Tenteļa pareizrakstības komisijas likumi un to atspulgi skolu mācību grāmatās un sabiedrībā

Author(s): Dzintra Paegle / Language(s): Latvian / Issue: 10/2019

The article reveals ups and downs of orthography at the end of 1930s, the alignment of orthography and changes in 1940s, and the influence of spelling rules on the use of the language nowadays. The article provides analysis of conclusions regarding spelling rules adopted under the supervision of Augusts Tentelis in 1938 and 1939. These “improvements” in the spelling directly affected the society, especially the content of schoolbooks. The article describes the development of several points in orthography-alphabet, use of long vowels ī IPA/iː/ and ā IPA/aː/ in the forms of verbs, forms of verbs in Simple Future second person plural form with ending -iet and the palatalized consonant ŗ IPA/rʲ/. The article provides a short insight into the protest on the part of the intellectuals against the orthography of 1938. To illustrate the orthography in practice, separate schoolbooks have been examined, specifying the biographic data of their authors Mārtiņš Gaide and Rūdolfs Grabis, and providing the main facts about the life of Augusts Tentelis and Ludis Bērziņš. The improvements introduced in the orthography by Tentelis caused disarray in the spelling, mismatches with the grammatical system of the Latvian language and the orthography developed by Jānis Endzelīns. In 1940s they were cancelled, but since 1946 the letter ŗ IPA/rʲ/ has been forgotten. This has changed the pronunciation from the close vowel e IPA /e/ to open vowel e IPA /æ/ in such verbs as dzeru, sveru, veru (simple present) and has reinforced the ending -iet in the of 2nd person simple future verb form lasīsiet, not lasīsit. These rules initiated the abandonment process of digraph ch in writing.

Cerkiewnosłowianizmy fonetyczne i słowotwórcze w I redakcji latopisów białorusko-litewskich (na przykładzie Latopisu Akademickiego i Kroniki supraskiej)

Author(s): Katarzyna Grabowska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 23/2019

The subject of this article is an analysis of two 16th century monuments of Grand Duchy of Lithuania writing: the Academic Chronicle and the Suprasl Chronicle. They belong to the first Belarusian-Lithuanian redaction, which consists of three main parts: all-Ruthenian, Smolensk, and the Chronicle of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania – the first original work wholly written in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The aim of the article is to single out in both chronicles Old Church Slavonic elements occurring on phonetic and word-formation levels. The analysis has revealed that in the oldest, all-Ruthenian part of both Old Church Slavonic works there are the most phonetic and word-formation features. However, they are also present in the other parts of the chronicles, in which Old Church Slavonic forms of all-Slavonic words and their Old Ruthenian equivalents appear parallelly. A number of prefixes and suffixes typical of the Old Church Slavonic language also confirm a strong link between these two chronicles and the writing tradition.

Circulaţia europeană a formulelor campanare în limba latină în secolele XIV-XVIII

Author(s): Filimon Doina Doroftei / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 19/2012

The paper is an attempt to compare the Latin inscriptions on bells from different periods and areas of Europe, being based on some collections from France,Germany, Hungaria and Transylvania. There are three types of information:Christian inscriptions (quoted from biblical and liturgical sources), inscriptions concerning the sound of the bell and inscriptions about casting and recasting work,donors etc. Some aspects of a future comparative study, which is to be done after the publication of corpora of bells inscriptions in each country, are further suggested: the common formulae in all European areas, the peculiar ethnical and confessional use of some formulae, the recurrent terms and the evolution of the formular in each area etc.

Das Anonymi ABC-Buch von 1671 und Georg Ermel

Über Inhalt, Entstehungsort und Urheber der ersten sorbischen Fibel

Author(s): Michael Ermel / Language(s): German / Issue: 1/2020

The earliest primers in Sorbian present us with riddles to this very day. Despite the endeavours of researchers in Sorbian studies it has neither been possible to ascertain the authorship of the Sorbian ABC book from 1671, nor to discover a copy of the primer authored around 1650 by Georg Ermel. The fact that both works originated in Lower Lusatia close together, both geographically and chronologically, led us to the question as to whether we are dealing here with one and the same book, and whether Georg Ermel, school rector at Calau, could have written it. For clarification, the content and external design of the ABC book of 1671 have been examined in detail followed by a similar investigation of the few sources that we have in relation to the Ermel primer. According to these sources Ermel’s authorship of the anonymous ABC Book of 1671 is highly probable, though it cannot be proven with absolute certainty. In addition to this finding on the author, it could be clarified that the work was printed in 1671 by Christoph Baumann in Bautzen and that the spelling introduced in the primer was adopted by Gottlieb Fabricius for his New Testament. Acknowledgement of this significant achievement has been missing up until now. The layout and decoration with a full-page woodcut of a rooster mark this primer out as a so-called “rooster abc book” and rarity of particular value.

Degree of Grammaticalisation of Behind, Beneath, Between and Betwixt in Middle English

Author(s): Ewa Ciszek-Kiliszewska / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

The present paper traces the history of four selected adverbs with the prefix be- in Middle English. Already in Old English behind, beneath, between and betwixt are attested to function as both adverbs and prepositions, which demonstrates that the process of grammaticalisation accounting for the development of prepositions from adverbs started before that period. The focus of the study are the diachronic changes of the degree of grammaticalisation of the examined lexemes in the Middle English period as demonstrated by the ratio of their use with a respective function in the most natural context. Hence, specially selected Middle English prose texts are analysed. The analysis shows that while behind and beneath are still frequently used as adverbs in the whole Middle English period, between and betwixt are predominantly used as prepositions already in Early Middle English. This clearly demonstrates that the degree of grammaticalisation of the latter two Middle English words was much higher than that of behind and beneath.

Deviner, adeviner: osservazioni semantiche su due verbi del francese antico

Author(s): Francesca Righetti / Language(s): Italian / Issue: 4/2011

This paper analyses the Old French verbs of deviner and adeviner, taking into consideration a corpus consisting of numerous editions with respective glossaries and linguistic notes. With regard to this, the paper aims at overcoming certain limitations of basic dictionaries: in some cases, conventional meanings proposed by them do not serve the purpose of adequate translation.

Die diskursiven Strategien der habsburgischen Sprachpolitik in der Spätaufklärung – am Beispiel der galizischen Volksschulen

Author(s): Anna Harbig / Language(s): German / Issue: 23/2019

At the end of the 18th century, in the Habsburg monarchy there was a fundamental change in the language profile of elementary education. The “Allgemeine Schulordnung” Act of 1774 brought compulsory German language education to schools in all provinces. This was contradictory to the established practice of teaching focused on the mother tongue and the language of religion. The introduction of German language required means of propaganda which would help to explain why linguistic conventions in the formof trans-regional languages of communication and Latin as a universal language, verified over the centuries in the Habsburg monarchy, were to be abandoned. The high status of Romance languages and widespread Slavic languages in the Habsburg monarchy led to expected resistance to the imposition of obligatory German language education. The article presents discursive strategies in the Habsburg language and educational policies that were in use after the enactment of the “Allgemeine Schulordnung” Act (1774) until its replacement by “Politische Verfassung” (1806).

Edition und Kommentar des Buchs Ruth aus der Bibelübersetzung des Johannes Bretke (1589)

Author(s): Felix Thies / Language(s): German / Issue: 17/2015

Die Bibelübersetzung des Johannes Bretke (lit. Jonas Bretkūnas, 1536–1602) ist eines der umfangreichsten Zeugnisse preußisch-litauischer Literatur. Noch heute, über 400 Jahre nach dem Tod des Übersetzers, sind die meisten Teile des Werks unediert, lediglich der Psalter wurde 2002 von Friedrich Scholz herausgegeben, die Edition der Evangelien und der Apostelgeschichte ist bis heute unveröffentlicht.

Ein nehrungskurischer Text im Forschungszentrum Deutscher Sprachatlas in Marburg. Das Blatt 30084 Nidden

Author(s): Christine Schiller,Dalia Kiseliūnaitė / Language(s): German / Issue: 17/2015

Mit Nehrungskurisch wird in der deutschsprachigen sprachwissenschaftlichen Literatur die auf kurländisch-lettischen Dialekten basierende Sprache bezeichnet, die von den Bewohnern – in erster Linie Fischern – auf der Kurischen Nehrung und daran angrenzenden Gebieten bis ca. 1958 gesprochen wurde. In der litauischsprachigen Literatur hat sich dafür der Terminus kuršininkų kalba bzw. kuršininkų tarmė, in der lettischen – kursenieku valoda eingebürgert.

Framing the Identity of an Ideal Primary School Teacher of English

Author(s): Oleksandr Kapranov / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

The article presents a study that aimed to examine how primary school teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) framed the identity of an ideal EFL teacher. The specific research aim was to identify and classify frames associated with the identity of an EFL primary school teacher in the corpus of reflective essays of approximately 1000 words about an ideal EFL teacher in Norwegian primary school contexts written by 32 Norwegian in-service primary school EFL teachers. It was hypothesised that the participants’ framing would be reflective of the identity of an ideal EFL teacher in Norway. The corpus of the participants’ essays was analysed in accordance with the framing methodology developed by Entman (1993) and Dahl (2015). The results of the framing analysis indicated that the participants in the study framed the identity of an ideal EFL teacher via frames associated with future ideal selves, ought-to selves, the identity of their former EFL teachers, and the identity of an ideal EFL teacher as a fictional character. The study implications would be beneficial to pre-service and current in-service EFL teachers and teacher-trainers alike, who could treat the results as a collective “portrait” of an ideal EFL teacher.

Franz Beranek and his activities in Slovakia

Author(s): Tomáš Kubisa / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2020

This paper deals with the research of Prof Franz Josef Beranek focused on the so called “Habans”, a social religious group that settled in western Slovakia. This research is reconstructed according to the so called German Archive, which forms a part of the scientific collections of the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. The first part is focused on the life of Franz Beranek and his research on the Haban community, including the history, the linguistic situation, and comparisons to other Anabaptist groups. The second part deals with the procedure of cataloguing the archive and its history, structure, and issues.