Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31745/s.70.12
LINGUISTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE TEMPORAL OF THE SECOND BERAM (LJUBLJANA) BREVIARY FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF HISTORICAL DIALECTOLOGY
Silvana VRANIĆ
orcid.org/0000-0002-3033-9625
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Rijeka Rijeka (Croatia)
Abstract
The focus of the paper is on the linguistic characteristics of the Temporal of the Second Beram (Ljubljana) Breviary (BrBer2) that differ from the Old Church Slavonic characteristics and that could be attributed to the vernacular. Efforts to identify vernacular elements in the first 50 folios from the perspective of diachronic dialectology indicate that this part of the Temporal belongs to the northern type of liturgical texts. By taking into account the reliability, or lack thereof, of old texts as dialectological templates, the same methodology was applied to other parts of the temporal (104vd–122vd, 165ra–194vd i 237ra–240vd) that were singled out by Žagar on the basis of the primary impression of the script (proportions of the letters, position within the line) in other to verify the presence of vernacular elements. Those linguistic characteristics were then compared to the results of the research into the idiom of Beram with the aim of determining whether Temporal I was written by scribes whose mother idiom was of the Beram type or whether the scribes had simply introduced elements of this type into the text. Among the identified linguistic characteristics two seem to be fundamental: the reflex of yat () in grammatical morphemes and the reflex of the posterior nasal. An increased number of Ekavisms in the first two parts is a consequence of the tendency to note down the Ekavian reflex of yat () more freely, i.e. of the perception of yat () as an e-type vowel, but it could also be a result of the influence of the idiom of Beram. This seems to be supported by the fact that the Ekavian replacements of yat () are also present in grammatical morphemes. Ikavisams in lexical morphemes seem to support the notion that the template for the Second Beram (Ljubljana) Breviary originated in the Krk area. With regard to the reflex of the posterior nasal, although rare, the replacements by o – in the context of those examples in the Sanctoral of this Breviary indicated by Mihaljević – could possibly also be seen as a result of the influence of the organic idiom.
Keywords
Second Beram (Ljubljana) Breviary; Temporal; vernacular; idiom of Beram; Croatian Old Church Slavonic; historical dialectology
Hrčak ID:
231697
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Publication date:
31.12.2019.
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