Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.31745/s.72.4

Old Croatian Translation of Pope Gregory XI’s Bull to the Pauline Order: Morphological System

Вячеслав Викторович Козак orcid.org/0000-0002-0841-019X ; Institut lingvističeskih issledovanij Rossijskoj akademii nauk, ILI RAN, Sankt-Peterburg, Russian Federation
Андрей Николаевич Соболев ; Institut lingvističeskih issledovanij Rossijskoj akademii nauk, ILI RAN, Sankt-Peterburg, Russian Federation

Abstract

The article deals with the language (doculect) of a unique late 14th-century Old Croatian manuscript – the Glagolitic bull of Pope Gregory XI to the Pauline Order. It presents the results of a historical analysis of the bull’s morphological system. According to the analysis, the language of the bull is classified as the Church-Slavonicised Old Croatian written language with a Čakavian dialect base. The morphological system is characterized by several doublet forms, with both more archaic (high, Church Slavonic) and more innovative (neutral, Old Croatian) endings, cf. bozê, bozi; biskupe, vêki; pridan’i, obiran’û; sego, sega; apustolskago, apustolskoga; silu, hitrostiû; budetь, bude; pristaemь, dopuĉamo, etc. The emergence of these doublets is associated with different processes in the development of the Old Croatian written language: the mixing of endings of different declination types; the development of the Proto-Slavic *-ě; the borrowing of endings from the dialect continuum; and the influence of one declination subtype on another. A quantitative comparison of competing forms shows the dominance of the innovative layer, which makes it possible to classify the language as Old Croatian. On the other hand, the area of distribution of the archaic layer demonstrates the main tools of stylistic Slavonisation (conscious or unconscious) of the language. The parallel use of doublet forms is a sign of a higher register, which represents the use of means of grammatical synonymy.

Keywords

Old Croatian language; morphology; Bull; Gregory XI; 14th-century; Croatia; Pauline order; Croatian Glagolitic monuments

Hrčak ID:

269766

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/269766

Publication date:

31.12.2021.

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