Filologija, No. 11, 1982.
Original scientific paper
TENDENCES IN THE DIACHRONIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE ADJECTIVE AND PRONOUN DECLENSIONS IN THE LANGUAGE OF CROATIAN GLAGOLITIC 'ZBORNIK' TEXTS OF THE 15th CENTURY
Eduard Hercigonja
; Zagreb
Abstract
The texts of the newer type of medieval Glagolitic non-liturgical zborniks (collections) from the 14th to the mid 16th centuries are written in Čakavian, in an artificial hybrid Čakavian (±Kajkavian) -Church Slavonic language, or in same cases in traditional literary Church Slavonic. Such linguistic structuring allows us to use copious materials of varied content, inter alia, to analyze and evaluate developmental characteristics and to trace the direction of the diachronic progression of categorial elements in the Čakavian system. On the basis. of examples from 'Petrisov Zbornik' (1463 -but also from other zbornik codices), the author describes the state of the pronoun and adjective declensions with their particular complexity, their morphological and formational fluctuations, and finally, the level of stabilization in these processes achieved in the 15th-16th centuries. On the other hand, the 'čtenja' ("readings") in these codices, written in a hybrid (Čakavian -Church Slavonic) language, show how the presence of characteristic elements of the Church Slavonic grammatical and morphological system of adjectives and pronouns (-ago, -ogo, -oju, -ego, -oe etc.) frequently served glagolitic writers as a specific morphostylistic element which they used skillfully and very purposefully to enrich their writings.
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157421
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Publication date:
20.12.1982.
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