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First attestations. An Old Church Slavonic sampler

  • Hanne Martine Eckhoff
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Diachronic Slavonic Syntax
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Abstract

Corpus linguistics and computational approaches to language constitute an important trend in today’s linguistics, and Slavic historical linguistics is no exception. This chapter serves as an empirical touchstone for the entire volume. Using parallel Greek and Old Church Slavonic data from the PROIEL/ TOROT treebanks, the first attested state of the phenomena covered in the volume is explored, including their relationship to the Greek sources. The chapter covers accusatives with infinitives (Gavrančić this volume, Tomelleri this volume), absolute constructions (Mihaljević 2017), deverbal nouns (Tomelleri this volume), prepositional phrase connectors (Kisiel & Sobotka this volume), numeral syntax (Słoboda this volume), the ordering of pronominal clitics (Kosek, Čech & Navratilova this volume), tense use in performative declaratives (Dekker this volume) and relative clauses (Sonnenhauser & Eberle this volume; Podtergera 2020). The chapter presents corpus statistics on each of the phenomena, and a brief discussion of the possibility of influence from Greek. The chapters that provide their own studies of Old Church Slavonic data (Fuchsbauer this volume on “mock” articles, Pichkhadze this volume on syntactic blocking and Šimić this volume on negative concord), are not replicated, but brought into the discussion when relevant.

Abstract

Corpus linguistics and computational approaches to language constitute an important trend in today’s linguistics, and Slavic historical linguistics is no exception. This chapter serves as an empirical touchstone for the entire volume. Using parallel Greek and Old Church Slavonic data from the PROIEL/ TOROT treebanks, the first attested state of the phenomena covered in the volume is explored, including their relationship to the Greek sources. The chapter covers accusatives with infinitives (Gavrančić this volume, Tomelleri this volume), absolute constructions (Mihaljević 2017), deverbal nouns (Tomelleri this volume), prepositional phrase connectors (Kisiel & Sobotka this volume), numeral syntax (Słoboda this volume), the ordering of pronominal clitics (Kosek, Čech & Navratilova this volume), tense use in performative declaratives (Dekker this volume) and relative clauses (Sonnenhauser & Eberle this volume; Podtergera 2020). The chapter presents corpus statistics on each of the phenomena, and a brief discussion of the possibility of influence from Greek. The chapters that provide their own studies of Old Church Slavonic data (Fuchsbauer this volume on “mock” articles, Pichkhadze this volume on syntactic blocking and Šimić this volume on negative concord), are not replicated, but brought into the discussion when relevant.

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Preface V
  3. Contents VII
  4. Glossing IX
  5. Introduction 1
  6. Part I: The influence of Latin on Slavonic vernaculars
  7. The paths of grammaticalization of North Slavonic connectors. An interface point of Slavonic, Greek and Latin 11
  8. The influence of Latin on the syntax of Old Polish numerals 37
  9. The influence of the Latin Vulgate on the word order of pronominal enclitics in the 1st edition of the Old Czech Bible 53
  10. The accusativus cum infinitivo in 16th–19th century Croatian texts. Contact-induced and internally motivated syntactic change 81
  11. Relative coordination. Kateri-/koteri-relatives in 18th century Slovene and Kajkavian 107
  12. Part II: The influence of Greek on Church Slavonic
  13. Blocking of syntactic constructions without Greek counterparts in Church Slavonic 133
  14. The article-like usage of the relative pronoun iže as an indicator of early Slavonic grammatical thinking 163
  15. Past tense usage in Old Russian performative formulae. A case study into the development of a written language of distance 179
  16. Part III: The influence of Latin on Church Slavonic
  17. When Church Slavonic meets Latin. Tradition vs. innovation 201
  18. Non-strict negative concord proper and languages in contact. Translating Latin into Croatian Church Slavonic and Greek into Old Church Slavonic 233
  19. Part IV: In lieu of a conclusion
  20. First attestations. An Old Church Slavonic sampler 255
  21. Index 303
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110651331-012

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Preface V
  3. Contents VII
  4. Glossing IX
  5. Introduction 1
  6. Part I: The influence of Latin on Slavonic vernaculars
  7. The paths of grammaticalization of North Slavonic connectors. An interface point of Slavonic, Greek and Latin 11
  8. The influence of Latin on the syntax of Old Polish numerals 37
  9. The influence of the Latin Vulgate on the word order of pronominal enclitics in the 1st edition of the Old Czech Bible 53
  10. The accusativus cum infinitivo in 16th–19th century Croatian texts. Contact-induced and internally motivated syntactic change 81
  11. Relative coordination. Kateri-/koteri-relatives in 18th century Slovene and Kajkavian 107
  12. Part II: The influence of Greek on Church Slavonic
  13. Blocking of syntactic constructions without Greek counterparts in Church Slavonic 133
  14. The article-like usage of the relative pronoun iže as an indicator of early Slavonic grammatical thinking 163
  15. Past tense usage in Old Russian performative formulae. A case study into the development of a written language of distance 179
  16. Part III: The influence of Latin on Church Slavonic
  17. When Church Slavonic meets Latin. Tradition vs. innovation 201
  18. Non-strict negative concord proper and languages in contact. Translating Latin into Croatian Church Slavonic and Greek into Old Church Slavonic 233
  19. Part IV: In lieu of a conclusion
  20. First attestations. An Old Church Slavonic sampler 255
  21. Index 303
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