<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The reconstruction of the Proto-Slavic vocabulary was and remains one of the priority tasks of comparative-historical Slavic studies. Different approaches to the solution of this problem are demonstrated by the monumental (although not completed) etymological dictionaries of the Proto-Slavic language, the hypothetical existence of which is recognized by most Slavists and Indo-Europeanists. Its reconstruction is performed almost exclusively on lexical material, and attempts to reconstruct the pre-Slavic phraseology are single. The method of such a reconstruction, based on a detailed account of the dialect material, was proposed in 1973 by N. I. Tolstoy. Studies in this direction make it possible to identify a zone of relative generality of Slavic phraseology, which, however, comes into contact with the Baltic and German-speaking zones. Inside such a Slavic massif, sub-zones of East Slavic-Polish phraseological interaction (often associated with the Baltic), West Slavic-Croatian-Slovenian (strongly influenced by German phraseology) and Bulgarian-Macedonian-Serbian (revealing traces of Turkic language influence) are revealed. In this general areal picture, there are many more concrete interactions, for example, a particular language specifics of the phraseology.</p></abstract>

The reconstruction of the Proto-Slavic vocabulary was and remains one of the priority tasks of comparative-historical Slavic studies. Different approaches to the solution of this problem are demonstrated by the monumental (although not completed) etymological dictionaries of the Proto-Slavic language, the hypothetical existence of which is recognized by most Slavists and Indo-Europeanists. Its reconstruction is performed almost exclusively on lexical material, and attempts to reconstruct the pre-Slavic phraseology are single. The method of such a reconstruction, based on a detailed account of the dialect material, was proposed in 1973 by N. I. Tolstoy. Studies in this direction make it possible to identify a zone of relative generality of Slavic phraseology, which, however, comes into contact with the Baltic and German-speaking zones. Inside such a Slavic massif, sub-zones of East Slavic-Polish phraseological interaction (often associated with the Baltic), West Slavic-Croatian-Slovenian (strongly influenced by German phraseology) and Bulgarian-Macedonian-Serbian (revealing traces of Turkic language influence) are revealed. In this general areal picture, there are many more concrete interactions, for example, a particular language specifics of the phraseology.

Proto-Slavic Phraseology: Myth or Reality?

Кафедра славянской филологии,

Санкт-петербургский государственный университет

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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The reconstruction of the Proto-Slavic vocabulary was and remains one of the priority tasks of comparative-historical Slavic studies. Different approaches to...

Proto-Slavic Phraseology: Myth or Reality?

Published Online: Aug 24, 2019

Page range: 5 - 32

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2019-0038

Keywords
pre-Slavic language, pre-Slavic phraseology, reconstruction of the Proto-Slavic phraseology, phraseologism, areal zones of Slavic phraseology

© 2019 Harry Walter et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Proto-Slavic Phraseology: Myth or Reality?

Published Online: Aug 24, 2019

Page range: 5 - 32

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jazcas-2019-0038

Keywordspre-Slavic language, pre-Slavic phraseology, reconstruction of the Proto-Slavic phraseology, phraseologism, areal zones of Slavic phraseology

© 2019 Harry Walter et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
pre-Slavic language, pre-Slavic phraseology, reconstruction of the Proto-Slavic phraseology, phraseologism, areal zones of Slavic phraseology