A NATIVITY SERMON IN THE 13 th CENTURY TOLSTOVSKIY SBORNIK: TEXTOLOGY AND LANGUAGE FEATURES
The paper focuses on the composition, lexical, and grammatical features of a Nativity sermon in the 13 th century Old Russian Tolstovskiy Sbornik (National Library of Russia, F.p.I.39). The author considers its Byzantine sources, principles of editorial work, and the differences from original r...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Volgograd State University
2019-12-01
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| Series: | Vestnik Volgogradskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Seriâ 2. Âzykoznanie |
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| Online Access: | https://l.jvolsu.com/index.php/en/archive-en/589-science-journal-of-volsu-linguistics-2019-vol-18-no-4/mainstream-issue-contemporary-studies-of-language-and-text-from-a-historical-perspective/1941-novak-m-o-a-nativity-sermon-in-the-13-th-century-tolstovskiy-sbornik-textology-and-language-features |
| Summary: | The paper focuses on the composition, lexical, and grammatical features of a Nativity sermon in
the 13 th century Old Russian Tolstovskiy Sbornik (National Library of Russia, F.p.I.39). The author considers its
Byzantine sources, principles of editorial work, and the differences from original rhetorical structures. Attributed
to John Chrysostom, the sermon turns out to be a complicated compilation from various early Byzantine sermons.
The compilation is based both on rearranging fragments of the same source and on combining excerpts from
different sermons in a small context. Such transformations indicate the lack of cohesion in sermon texts, due to
their independence from the causation and time factor. Non-attributed parts of the Old Russian text may be original
since they demonstrate a certain similarity with Kirill Turovskiy orations in the same anthology. The lexical level
of the sermon contains non-standard solutions that reinterpret the Greek source text, which may indicate either the
missionary nature of the translation or a tendency to the poetic decoration. In some cases, the semantic mismatch of
lexical units within Greek-Slavonic correlations is due to errors. At the grammatical level, there are also grammatical
inconsistencies of Slavonic and Greek units; they affect the categories of time, number, gender, as well as parts-
of-speech status. |
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| ISSN: | 1998-9911 2409-1979 |