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A dictionary of locutions from liturgical books by protopriest A. I. Nevostruev (православлю — превосхожду) [PDF]
The “Dictionary of Locutions from Liturgical Books” by Protopriest A. Nevostruev, completed in the middle of the 19th century and never published, can be regarded both as a signifi cant achievement of Church Slavonic studies and as a valuable ...
Maria Davydenkova +3 more
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The history of the Romanian (Rm.) term boier (a medieval aristocratic title) is long and rather confusing. Practically, all dictionaries that include entries on that term present it as ultimately derived from Old Church Slavonic (OCS) bolʹarinʺ.
Adrian Poruciuc
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The Martyrdom of Nadezhda Kurchenko: Soviet Hero Cults and the Spiritual Turn in Late Socialism
Abstract This article argues that the spiritual turn in Soviet atheism under Brezhnev provided a meaningful solution to the problems of producing heroes when self‐sacrificing martyrs were losing their appeal. To support this claim, I examine the story of Nadezhda Kurchenko, a nineteen‐year‐old flight attendant killed by two hijackers on an Aeroflot ...
Steven E. Harris
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The Role of Contact in Explaining Linguistic Convergence1
Abstract In this paper, I explore the question of how linguistic convergence emerges and what the role of contact might be. My case study is the spread of headed relative clauses built around wh‐relative markers in the Standard Average European languages.
Nikolas Gisborne
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Rječnik crkvenoslavenskoga jezika hrvatske redakcije ulazi u leksikografsku kategoriju rječnika razdoblja, podvrste povijesnoga rječnika. U radu su predstavljene posebnosti rječničkoga članka (četiri pisma i pet idioma) i njegova mikrostruktura koja ...
Ana Šimić, Šimić, Ana
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Syntactic Organisation of A. D. Kantemir’s Poems
The purpose of this article is to identify and characterise the typological features of the “syntactic portrait” of A. D. Kantemir in the aspects of identification of the “average” poetic syntactic norm of the epoch, as well as in close connection of the
Natalja Victorovna Patroeva
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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1
Abstract Ukrainian has two inherited syntactic forms for possessive have: a transitive one with a lexical have‐verb, and an intransitive, originally locative be‐construction. On the basis of four corpus studies, the article establishes their relative frequency in Middle Ukrainian writing (17th and 18th c.), Modern Ukrainian dialects (20th c.), and ...
Jan Fellerer
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Blueprint for a Universal Theory of Learning to Read: The Combinatorial Model
The Reading Tree. Abstract In this essay, I outline some of the essential ingredients of a universal theory of reading acquisition, one that seeks to highlight commonalities while embracing the global diversity of languages, writing systems, and cultures.
David L. Share
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ABSTRACT Gerhard Gundermann was an East German open cast miner and ‘Liedermacher’ who died prematurely in 1998 at the age of forty‐three. Although he is known for his controversial involvement with the Stasi in his early career, very little has been written about his art, including the ‘Liedertheater’ work he performed with Brigade Feuerstein in the ...
David Robb
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Церковнослов’янізми з богослужбово-обрядовою семантикою в українській мові ХVІ–ХVІІІ ст. [PDF]
In this paper, the author analyzes the structure, word formation, and meaning of Church Slavonic lexical elements with semantics of worship and rites on the basis of secular written documents which served as a source for the Dictionary of the Ukrainian ...
ЮРІЙ ОСІНЧУК +1 more
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