UCLA Slavic Studies Volume 11
Contents
Preface 7
J. J. Hamm
Inaugural Address: Oxonium Docet 9
General and Comparitive
Vladimr Barnet
Toward a Sociolinguistic Interpretation of the Origins of the Slavonic Literary Languages 13
Henrik Birnbaum
The Slavonic Language Community as a Genetic and Typological Class 21
Peter Kiraly
The Role of the Buda University Press in the Development of Orthography and Literary Languages 29
Rado L. Lencek
On Sociolinguistic Determinants in the Evolution of Slavic Literary Languages 39 W. F. Ryan
Astronomy in Church Slavonic
Linguistic Aspects of Cultural Transmission 53
West Slavonic
Helmut Fasske
The Historical, Economic and Political Bases of the Formation and Development of the Sorbian Literary Languages 61
Jozef Mistrik
The Modernization of Contemporary Slovak 71
Eugen Pauliny
The Effect of Magyarization on the Fortunes of Literary and Cultivated Slovak 77
Alexander Schenker
Czech Lexical Borrowings in Polish Re-examined 85
Gerald Stone
Language Planning and the Lower Sorbian Literary Language 99
Stanislaw Urbanczyk
The Origins of the Polish Literary Language 105
South Slavonic
Aleksandar Albijanic
The Demise of Serbian Church Slavic and the Advent of the Slaveno-Serbski Literary Dialect 115
Pet''r Dinekov
Aspects of the History of the Bulgarian Literary Language in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 125
L. Hadrovics
The Status of the Croatian Regional Languages immediately before Gaj's Reforms 133
Peter Herrity
France Presheren and the Slovene Literary Language 147
Henry Leeming
Emil Koryto (1813-1839), Slavophile and Slavenophile 161
Francis Wenceslas Maresh
A Basic Reform of the Orthography at the Early Period of Croatian-Glagolitic Church Slavonic 177
Peter Rehder
The Concept of the Norm and the Literary Language among the Glagoljashi 183 Joze Toporisic
Kopitar as Defender of the Independence of the Slovene Language 193
East Slavonic
Gerta Huettl-Folter
The Lexical Heritage from the Old Russian Chronicles and the Formation of Literary Russian 207
H. Keipert
Old and New Problems of the Russian Literary Language (Arguments for a New Kind of Russian Linguistic History) 215
Arnold McMillin
The Development of the Byelorussian Literary Lexicon in the Nineteenth Century 225
Dean S. Worth
Vernacular and Slavonic in Kievan Rus' 233
Hungarian
Marianna D. Birnbaum
Innovative Archaism: a Facet in the Poetic Language of Endre Ady. 243
References 253
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