A Short Note on the Glagolitic Ornament in Pamvo Berynda’s Triod Cvetnaya (Kiev 1631)

Author(s): Sebastian Kempgen / Language(s): English / Issue: 14-15/2015

The article draws attention to two lesser known lines written in Glagolitic which are part of the Epilogue to Pamvo Berynda’s Triod Cvetnaja, printed in Kiev in 1631. Thanks to their typographic realisation, these two lines seem to have been mainly considered „an ornament“ or a „cryptographic“ element of the text in older literature. The article presents the Glagolitic text in standard Unicode encoding, so it becomes electronically searchable as such, along with a transliteration and a translation. It turns out that the Glagolitic text is nearly identical to the self-descriptions famout printer Pamvo Berynda had used before (although in Cyrillic). Another question put forth in the paper is the provenience of the actual printing types used in Kiev in 1631. A comparision shows that the letters look similar – but not identical – to printing type used around the same time Italy (Rome, Venice) or by Primož Trubar in the century before. The typographic quality of the Kievan types is, however, inferior.

A Slavonic etymology of Hung. ocsúdik ‘to come to, to awake’ and the question of the morphological adaptation of Slavonic loan verbs in Hungarian

Author(s): Michał Németh / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

The two Turkic etymologies of Hung. ocsúdik (1508) ‘to awake, to come to, to regain consciousness’ proposed, on the one hand, in the late 19th century by Vámbéry (1870) and, on the other, by K. Palló in 1976 and 1982, have been rightly rejected by the authors of TLH. At the same time, the explanation for the origin of this word found in the etymological dictionaries of Hungarian (TESz, EWUng, Zaicz 2006), namely, that it is a derivative of an unknown unproductive stem, is not entirely convincing for morphological reasons. The present paper offers a new etymology for this word, explaining it as a loanword from East Slavonic очюдитися ‘to regain consciousness, to awake’ attested in 16th- and 17th-century Russian. The starting point for the discussion is M. Stachowski’s (2014) article, in which he compared Hung. ocsúdik with Polish dialectal ocudzić ‘to revive’.

A. Gołębiowska-Suchorska: „Dziewczę przędzie, Pan Bóg nitki daje”. O spójności ludowej wizji świata.

Author(s): Eliza Małek / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 4/2011

The review of: "Girl spins, Lord of the thread gives." About the coherence of the folk vision of the world by A. Gołębiowska-Suchorska; Bydgoszcz 2011, 256 pp.

Absolutely Modifying Adjectives In British And Bulgarian Newspapers In Comparison With The British National Corpus

Author(s): Irina Stoyanova-Georgieva / Language(s): English,Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2016

The paper studies the collocations formed by ‘absolutely’ used as an adverbial intensifier for modifying adjectives in a corpus of Letters to the Editor, published in British and Bulgarian newspapers, and the BNC. The results of the study show the similarities between the collocations of ‘absolutely’ in English and Bulgarian as well as the resemblances in the choice of a syntactic position of the modified adjectives in both languages.

Acknowledgment patterns in English and Lithuanian research writing

Author(s): Jolanta Šinkūnienė,Gabrielė Dudzinskaitė / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

The paper focuses on the features of acknowledgments in scientific texts written by British and Lithuanian authors in the Humanities. The data comes from a self-compiled corpus of acknowledgments in scientific books written by British and Lithuanian researchers in their native languages, and from doctoral dissertations written by Lithuanian doctoral students in Lithuanian. The results of the quantitative and qualitative analysis suggest that the British scholars place more importance on acknowledgments as they single out their thanks as separate sections, make them longer and express gratitude for a larger number of individuals and institutions than the Lithuanian scholars. Generally the same moves and steps are employed in the three data sets, but the distribution of some moves and steps is different.

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH VOWELS PRODUCED BY AMERICAN SPEAKERS AND HIGHLY COMPETENT SERBIAN L2 SPEAKERS

Author(s): Dušan Nikolić / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2016

The paper submits the findings of the research which explored the acoustic properties of highly competent Serbian L2 speakers’ vowels and the vowels produced by American native speakers in two reading tasks. The study involved four participants: two female native speakers of English and two highly proficient female Serbian speakers of English. The participants were instructed to read a dialogue and a story, after which the duration and the quality of the vowels produced were measured. Based on the analysis of the collected data, the results showed that there were differences in the production of vowels between the two groups of speakers, but it was concluded that, despite these differences, the Serbian participants did not have any major issues with the production of vowels that would significantly, or at all, afflict their intelligibility. Neither the vowel quality nor the vowel duration was critical for the Serbian participants compared to that of the American speakers. What the research instead inferred was that the American participants displayed a strong tendency to reduce their vowels, while the Serbian participants did not reveal such a marked tendency to do the same.

Acquisition of noun derivation in Estonian and Russian L1

Author(s): Reili Argus,Victoria Kazakovskaya / Language(s): English / Issue: 14/2018

Acquisition of derivation is not a well-studied area in first language research and a comparative approach to the acquisition of derivation in different languages doesn’t exist. There is no information on how a child acquires derivation in a language with a rich and regular system of derivational patterns, or in a language where derivation is productive, but the system of derivational patterns is opaque. According to general ideas of complexity in a language, the child should start to use simplex stems first and, only after that, complex ones, that is, complexity should increase in the course of acquisition. Our paper is intended to address these issues, based on longitudinal child data from typologically different languages, Estonian and Russian. The results revealed significant differences in the acquisition of noun derivation in the two languages under observation. The system of noun derivation is acquired at a faster pace in Russian, while Estonian children have far fewer noun derivatives in their speech and they use different derivation suffixes with less regularity. Even so, the so-called building block model may be applied for both languages only partially.

Adaptation of Turkish Loanwords in the Wallachian Dialect of Bregovo (Vidin Region)

Author(s): Vladislav Marinov / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2020

The research examines the model of the phonetic adaptation of Turkish loanwords in the Wallachian dialect of Bregovo (Vidin region). Here a comparative analysis is made about the acquirement of lexemes ending in -e in the Wallachian dialect of Bregovo, in the official Bulgarian language (BL) and in the official Romanian language (RL). It has been proved that in the Wallachian dialect of Bregovo and in the official Romanian language the model is identical – the final Turkish vowel “e” is replaced by “a”, following a soft consonant (in the Romanian language it is marked by the grapheme “ea”). The presence of this group of nouns in the Romanian language and in the Wallachian dialect of Bregovo is evidence of the existence of soft consonants in the two linguistic formations – official and dialect. At the same time, in the Wallachian dialect of Bregovo the model is productive for new words with a foreign origin that came through the Bulgarian language.

Adaptation des Elements Romans Dans les Anthroponymes Herzegoviniens au Milieu Actuel

Author(s): Edina Alirejsović / Language(s): French / Issue: 24/1986

Ako pregledamo popisne liste stanovnika iz nekih hercegovačkih opština (Mostar, Čapljina), odmah ćemo uočiti veliki broj prezimena koja odskaču od uobičajenih prezimena iz tog kraja. Među tim prezimenima ima i njemačkih, čeških, ali najveći broj je romanskog porijekla. Jedan broj porodica nosi čista italijanska prezimena i vjerovatno vode porijeklo iz Italije. Spomenimo samo neka: Balđinelli, Batisti, Batistutti, Becafigo, Belli, Beloti, Beltrani, Biasi, Bijagi, Broj doti Chiandatti, De Bari, Federizzi, Filipetti, Gilardi, Gitelli, Gonzani, Grossi, Kruzzola, Kurinaldi, Maldini, Markati, Markulini, Medini, Montebeli, Moretti, Nardelli, Oggioni, Orlandini, Rossi, Salvesani, Stefanini, Sultioni, Venutti. U popisnim listinama iz opštine Mostar od 1850. godine možemo naći veliki broj ovakvih prezimena, koja se malo po malo gube do današnjih dana, kada se zadržao samo jedan manji broj koji i danas postoji u tom kraju. U ovom prilogu su obrađena prvo ona prezimena koja su nastala po nekom zanimanju kojim se, vjerovatno, ta porodica bavila, bilo da su bili trgovci, drvodjelje, zapovjednici kaštela, providuri i si. Takva prezimena su se sačuvala do našeg vremena i svjedoče o jednom razdoblju u kojem je došlo do miješanja i različitih jezičkih uticaja. Razmatrajući takvo stanje, možemo se približiti novim stadijima u kojima lakše možemo razabrati mehanizam i puteve tog lingvističkog procesa, da bismo na kraju došli do namjerno stvaranih dvojezičnih ili višejezičnih tvorevina što ih iziskuju terminološke i praktične potrebe savremene nauke. Jedno od veoma čestih prezimena je Butigan. Biitiga f. je trgovački termin i znači „prodavnica, dućan” , a dolazi od it. bottega f. Drugo, veoma često, prezime je Kaštelan, ali i Kaštelani, od it. cas telio m. „dvorac, kula” i castellano „gospodar dvorca, zapovjednik kaštela” . Novija posuđenica od lat. deminutiva na -elhts castellum > it. castello, od lat. castrum, potisnula je stariju sa a > o kostel, od koje se sačuvalo prezime Kostelnik. Od castellum je izvedenica na -anus it. castellano : kaštelan i kaštelan. Među prezimenima koja se odnose na neko zanimanje možemo spomenuti i Marangun što je siguran venecijanizam marangon, u značenju „stolar, drvodjelja” . Providur je takođe prezime koje možemo naći u Hercegovini, a dolazi od it. proweditore, mlet. provveđedor, u značenju „mletački visoki upravni činovnik, pokrajinski poglavar” . Još podosta hercegovačkih prezimena nastalo je na sličan način, a znače neko zanimanje, tako da proučavanje čitavog tog materijala zahtijeva izradu jedne poveće studije u kojoj bi mogla biti prezentiram sva navedena problematika. U ovom prilogu je obrađeno i nekoliko antroponima koji se odnose na neke osobine, odnosno mane čovjekove. Dosta često prezime je Manigoda i Manigodić, it. manigoldo „lupež, hulja” . Interesantno je i prezime Pinjuh, a pojavljuje se i Pinjuv i Pinjuf, a možemo ga dovesti u vezu sa pinjav „škrt”, it. pigna f. Ne tako često, ali ipak na ovom terenu zabilježeno je i prezime Spion, ven. spi im, m., it. spione m. „uhoda, špijun” . Od ostalih prezimena spomenuta su sljedeća: Fontana, it. fontana f. „česma, vodoskok” . Kapular, možemo dovesti u vezu sa kapula, što je dalmato-romanski relikt od lat. cepulla. Izgovor k za lat. c ispred e jasno pokazuje da je naziv preuzet od dalmatinskih Romana. Gustin, gäst m, od it. gusto < lat. gustus „ukus, apetit” . Marin, it. marina „mornarica , od lat. > it. ličnog imena Marinus. Musulin, it. mussola, mussolina f „vrsta tkanine” . Priganica, ven. fritola „uštipak”. Daleko bi nas odvelo proučavanje mnogobrojnih prezimena koja u sebi sadrže romanske elemente, a koja su utkana u hercegovačko tlo koje u sebi nosi i brojne leksičke, kao i fonetske elemente preuzete iz romanskih jezika. Spomenimo samo to da među romanskim posuđenicama u Hercegovini najbrojniju kategoriju čine imenice, što je sasvim razumljivo s obzirom na činjenicu da se one najlakše pozajmljuju, a njihov broj je u jeziku najveći. Navešćemo samo neke od najčešće upotrebljavanih imenica: Arija, bala, balàture, banak, bàül, borša, bronzin, gête, himbulja, Mice, kasëta, kàmostre, kàret, kStula, mrgïnj, mïda, pala, pašta, piSülj, pjàt, raša, sàket itd, Sve te posudenice iz susjednih apeninskih i balkanskih romanskih govora uklopile su se u srpskohrvatske dijalekte i obogatile naš jezik, koji time nije ništa izgubio od svoje izražajnosti. Sada vidimo da i hercegovački antroponimi nose pečat tog vremena, Što je sasvim razumljivo s obzirom na činjenicu da je istočnohercegovački dijalekt izbijao na morsku obalu i na jednom širokom području dolazio u dodir sa italijanskim jezikom i mletačkim dijalektom.

Address and Reference Terms in Lithuanian Dinner Discourse

Author(s): Aušra Abraškevičiūtė / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2001

This article aims at analyzing Lithuanian address and reference terms in family dinner context, their linguistic expressions, frequency and functions. 10 Lithuanian middle-class families were filmed during a dinner. Conversations were transcribed extensively and then analyzed. The findings fall into 6 major categories - first names and kinship names in the Vocative case, first names and kinship names with diminutive suffixes in all cases, collocations of nouns and diminutive nominals, first names with a pejorative suffix, first names with solidarity oriented endings, nicknames and endearment terms, and neutral reference terms. They have different impact on face work.

Adnotationes ad decretum ‘hellenisticum’ oppido Pliska repertum

Author(s): Nicolay Sharankov / Language(s): Greek, Ancient (to 1453),Latin / Issue: 15/2005

Adverbs as evidentials: an English-Spanish contrastive analysis of twelve adverbs in spoken and newspaper discourse

Author(s): Marta Carretero,Juana I. Marín-Arrese,Julia Lavid-López / Language(s): English / Issue: 70/2017

This paper presents a contrastive analysis of six English evidential adverbs ending in -ly with their Spanish nearest translation equivalents, in spoken and newspaper discourse. The adverbs may be associated with varying degrees of reliability: high (clearly/claramente, evidently/evidentemente, obviously/obviamente), medium (apparently/al parecer) and low (seemingly/aparentemente, supposedly/supuestamente). The analysis is based on tokens of authentic language extracted from two contemporary corpora, the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) and the Corpus de Referencia del Español Actual (CREA). The qualitative analysis focuses on the evidential functions of the adverbs and on their pragmatic interactional uses; the quantitative analysis centres on the relative frequency of type of evidential functions and the clausal position of the adverbs. The results uncover a number of differences between the English adverbs and their Spanish correlates and also between the two discourse types. Practically all the adverbs are strongly specialized in expressing either indirect-inferential or indirect-reportative evidentiality. English obviously and Spanish evidentemente show a high frequency of cases of loss of evidential meaning due to pragmaticalization, specifically in spoken discourse. Regarding position, the English adverbs are more frequent in medial clausal position, while some Spanish adverbs are often found in the more prominent parenthetical position.

Aegyptio-Afroasiatica XI

Author(s): Gábor Takács / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2005

The long-range series “Aegyptio-Afroasiatica”is devoted to the publication of new Afro-Asiatic etymologies of Egyptian lexical roots which have been identified in the course of my research on the “Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian”(EDE, Leiden, Brill, published since 1999). The underlying consonant correspondences the proposed etymologies are based on have been elaborated and demonstrated in EDE I. The numeration of the etymological entries in the present contribution continues that of the previous parts.

Aegyptio-Afroasiatica XXIII

Author(s): Gábor Takács / Language(s): German / Issue: 2/2010

New Afro-Asiatic parallels are suggested for Egyptian lexical roots continued from the previous communications.

AEGYPTIO-AFROASIATICA XXV

Author(s): Gábor Takács / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2012

During my current work on the Egyptian Etymological Word Catalogue (EEWC, ongoing since summer 1994), it has become possible to identify a great number of new lexical correspondences between Egyptian and its vast Afro-Asiatic (Semito-Hamitic) kindred. The series of papers “AegyptioAfroasiatica” has been started in 1995 for reporting these results. The numbering of etymological entries is continuous beginning from my very first report.

Agape vastete kujunemisest eesti piiblitõlgetes

Author(s): Sven-Erik Soosaar / Language(s): Estonian / Issue: 61/2015

The development of the lexicon and conceptual system of Estonian has been influenced by the translation of Bible into Estonian. In order to achieve a more precise translation, new words were created either by means of borrowings or derivation using extant word stems. One of the central concepts in Christianity is agape (love), which was translated in early Estonian texts mostly by the word ‘arm’, which was a word with a rather broad meaning. During the Bible translation in the beginning of the 18th century, a new term ‘armastus’ was derived from the same-stem verb ‘armastama’, as an exact counterpart for Greek agape. In the later development of Estonian, the meaning of this term expanded. In the article, the development of Estonian counterparts of agape and the closely related concepts charis and eleos are examined with the comparisons of Latin and German terms, which were languages also used in Estonia during the missionary work and Bible translation.

AKADEMİK ÇALIŞMALAR IŞIĞINDA RUS DİLİNDE TÜRKÇENİN İZLERİ

Author(s): Ergali ESBOSINOV / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 40/2018

Nowadays, Turkic languages are world languages with more than 600 thousand words, which roots date back to the early estimates of history. In the background of the fact that Turkic people are so widespread and then influencing other languages, these languages are strong languages of political administration, rich in phonetic structure and literary power. Slavonic languages and Turkic languages associations started in the first century. Scientists classify these associations according to many historical circles. The first period is estimated to be І-VІІІ centuries. The Avars, which lie between the Slavs living in the Eastern European regions and the Huns, are the economic relations between the Khazars and the Bulgarians living in the banks of the Edil River. In this age, Slavic tribes generally passed names, places and water (river) names. Second cycle is ІХ-ХІІ centuries. According to some Turkologists, this periodical Turkic quotation words are of Kipchak language.

Akanie jako środek stylizacji językowej w powieściach litewskich Józefa Weyssenhoffa

Author(s): Magdalena Płusa / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 34 (39)/2018

Józef Weyssenhoff (1860–1932) was a Polish writer who dedicated to Kaunas, Lithuania two of the most significant novels in his literary output – “Unia” (1910) and “Soból i panna” (1912), often called “Lithuanian novels”. He was deeply emotionally connected with this region since he was a child. Both these texts constitute a valuable source of knowledge concerning the status of regional variant of Polish language and its formal characteristics that were used in the ground-breaking decades of the 19th and 20th century. These characteristics were used by the writer as a means of masterly conducted linguistic stylization. Among the presented by Weyssenhoff’s linguistic facts characteristic for Northern Borderlands there can be found a process called ‘akanie’ what basically means the pattern of pronouncing unstressed vowels /e/ and /o/ as /a/. Which of the peculiar indicators concerning the specific vowel pronunciation is evidenced in the studied texts (phonetic parameter or a phenomenon that has experienced morphological processes)? How do they serve as a means of linguistic stylization? The following article presents a brief description of the peculiar process called ‘akanie’ which was known to Józef Weyssenhoff from Kaunas, Lithuania and which he then deliberately introduced in his two novels as a function of a literary manifestation.

Akcenat glagola u sarajevskom govoru u odnosu na mostarski govor i bosanski standardni jezik

Author(s): Jasmin Hodžić / Language(s): Bosnian / Issue: 78-79/2017

Savremeni bosanski jezik, za razliku od crnogorskog, hrvatskog i srpskog jezika, još uvijek najbolje čuva klasični standardni akcenatski sistem. On je dat prema progresivnim novoštokavskim govorima koji su poslužili kao osnovica nekadašnjeg srpskohrvatskog standarda i koji se tradicionalno već naziva Vuk-Daničićev akcenatski sistem. Prema tom sistemu bosanski standard, kao i bosanski govori pojedinačno, prave i određene minimalne otklone, a koji opet nisu takve naravi da bi sistem doveli u pitanje. U vezi s navedenim nije nimalo nebitno da su bosanskohercegovački govori u izrazito preovladavajućoj mjeri novoštokavski.

Ako hovorí slovenská mládež v Maďarsku a na Slovensku v súčasnosti? (Bilingválna reflexia)

Author(s): Mária Homišinová / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 1/2015

The intention of this paper is to present the empirical research results of the Slovak youth lingual-communication behavior in Slovakia and Hungary, whereas this research work was performed in both countries in the year 2010. Expressions of a spoken form of the Slovak language in surroundings were investigated, which is typical for the application of the written language as a form of a social contact in school – with friends, peers, and in family. The referential framework of this article consists of three analytical levels: 1. the analysis of the knowledge level of the Slovak and Hungarian language (in the case of the Slovak language, its lingual appearances are analyzed); 2. intergeneration relations of lingual communication; 3. the analysis of mutual contexts (the dependence on identification signs)