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» RETHINKING RUSSIAN GLOTOGONIC MYTHS (On the emergence of East Slavic literary languages /on the example of Ukrainian/)

RETHINKING RUSSIAN GLOTOGONIC MYTHS (On the emergence of East Slavic literary languages /on the example of Ukrainian/)

Journal section: Research articles
Language: Ukrainian

DOI: https://doi.org/10.37919/3083-6212.2024.1.62-95

Joanna GETKA

Doctor hab., Professor of the Department of Central and East European Intercultural Studies of University of Warsaw
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5857-7257
e-mail: j.getka@uw.edu.pl

Viktor MOISIIENKO

Doctor of Philology, Professor, Corresponding Member of NAS of Ukraine
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8420-1947
e-mail: v.moysiyenko@ukr.net

 

The article proposes a new approach to elucidating the genesis of the literary and written languages of the Eastern Slavs. The authors start from the thesis about the origins of the literary language from the beginnings of the formation of the written norm. The norms of the Ukrainian and Belarusian languages have come a long way, but their beginnings undoubtedly date back to the period of Rus’. At the same time, we run through the idea of not only the existence of separate East Slavic languages since the XI century, but also separate revisions of the Church Slavonic language: from the 11th century — Ukrainian, somewhat later, from the 13th century — Belarusian, and not the thesis dogmatized by Russian linguists about the existence of a “Church Slavonic language Russian / East Slavic editorship” in this period. In this context, it should be emphasized that from the 11th century there are also written monuments with characteristic features of the Novgorod-Pskov idiom, which, however, remain beyond the interests of the authors of the article due to the fact that this idiom did not develop into a separate East Slavic language: the Novgorod tradition was replaced by the Moscow one.

The most valuable and reliable sources for interpreting the beginnings of the language norm are original, precisely dated and localized monuments, created both in the written language of Rus, based on local speech, and in the Church Slavonic language. The concept is proposed on the example of Ukrainian.

Keywords: literary language, language norm, written record, East Slavic languages, editions of the Church Slavonic language.


LEGEND

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