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Language of early Rus′
Assigned reading
- Horace G. Lunt. “On the relationship of Old Church Slavonic to the written
language of Early Rus′.” Russian linguistics 11. 1987. 133–62.
Corrigenda to Lunt’s appendix:
- Item 8b, OCS column should read lat- (not
olt-)
- Item 12a, Old ESlav column should read тобѣ, собѣ
(it is blank in the original)
- Item 12b, Old ESlav column should read мънѣ (it is
blank in the original)
Dictionaries
- Concise dictionary of Old Russian. (11th–17th centuries) 2nd,
revised edition. By Horace G. Lunt. Revised by Oscar E. Swan. Bloomington:
Slavica, 2013.
- Словарь древнерусского языка (XI–XIV вв.). В десяти томах. Главный
редактор Р.И. Аванесов. Москва : Русский язык, 1988–. PG2742 S47 1988. On line
at http://www.slovari.ru/default.aspx?s=0&p=2641.
- Словарь русского языка XI–XVII вв. Главный редактор С.Г. Бархударов;
редактор Г.А. Богатова. Москва : Наука, 1975–. PG2742 .S5. On line at http://etymolog.ruslang.ru/index.php?act=xi-xvii.
- Срезневский, И. И. Материалы для словаря древне-русскаго языка.
Москва : Государственное Издателство, 1958. PG2667 S774 1958. (First published
1893. Subsequent reprints.) Available on-line in three parts (without the
supplement): А–К, Л–П, Р–Я.
In-class readings
- “Параллельный текст из Евангелий Зографского, Саввина, Остромирова и Мариинского
(Мтф. XXVI, 26–47).” In Charles E. Gribble. Medieval Slavic texts.
Volume 1. Old and Middle Russian texts. Cambridge: Slavica, 1973. 24–26. PG520
.G75.
Skazanie of Boris and Gleb
from the Успенский сборник.
XII–XIII вв. Москва: Наука, 1971. 42 ff. Reprinted in Gribble, 89 ff.
Selected bibliography
- Franklin, Simon. 1985.
Literacy and documentation in early medieval
Russia.
Speculum vol. 60, no. 1. 1–38. (JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2852132)
- Franklin, Simon. 2002. Writing, society and culture in early Rus, c.
950–1300. Cambridge, U.K. and New York: Cambridge University Press.
P211.3.K54 F73 2002.
- Trubetzkoy, Nikolai. 1951. The Common Slavic element in Russian
Culture. Edited by Leon Stilman. New York: Columbia University. PG43
.T865 1951a.
- Worth, Dean S. 1993. “([Church] Slavonic) writing in Kievan Rus′.”
Christianity and the eastern Slavs, Vol. I. Slavic cultures in the
Middle Ages. Ed. Boris Gasparov and Olga Raevsky-Hughes.
(California Slavic studies, XVI.) Berkeley: University of
California Press. 141–53. PG13 C153c.
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