Review article
https://doi.org/10.31745/s.69.6
POTENTIAL NONLEXICAL PALEOSLOVENISMS IN OLD CZECH
Bohumil VYKYPĚL
; Czech Language Institute of the CAS, Brno (Czech Republic)
Abstract
The present paper deals with Old Czech linguistic elements from other parts of the language system than the lexicon which have been regarded as borrowed from Old Church Slavonic: it is examined to what extent we really can consider them palaeoslovenisms. The elements in question belong to word-formation (suffixes ‑tel and ‑telný, prefixes z‑ and bez‑, composition, superlative meaning of comparative), syntax (dativus absolutus, adnominal dative, accusative instead of locative in ve jmě ‘in nomine’), morphology (simple past voices, dual number, morphological adaptation of Greek and Latin names) as well as phonology and orthography (Greek-Latin phoneme sequence VuC, breve as vowel length mark). Also investigated is the system of naming the days of the week, a phenomenon on the borderline between grammar (in the sense of the structuring of the language system) and the lexicon. The author concludes that only the agentive suffix ‑tel may be viewed with some probability as being of Old Church Slavonic origin. Possible, but not very probable is the Old Church Slavonic origin in the case of ‑telný, z‑, bez‑, the compounds, the adnominal dative, the accusative in ve jmě, the morphological adaptation of names, the past tenses, the dual and the names of the days in the week.
Keywords
nonlexical palaeoslovenisms; Old Czech; Old Church Slavonic
Hrčak ID:
231481
URI
Publication date:
30.12.2019.
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