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L’antico russo come tappa intermedia nella deriva dell’italiano e del russo moderno

December 2011 | #18

by: prof. Edgardo T. Saronne
Full professor of Slavic Linguistics
University of Bologna, Italy
pp: 40
ISSN: 2038-632X

Abstract

The evolution of genetically related languages may sometimes result in a radical modification and differentiation of their structures. The author of this article uses the term shift to designate this kind of structural changes. The relevance of the shift may be increased by geographical and temporal distance.

There is a chronological asymmetry in the establishment and development of Italian and Russian. The forefathers of the two modern languages were Latin (established in the III-II centuries B.C.) and Old Church Slavonic (established in the XI-XII centuries A.D.). Italian became a literary language in the XIII-XIV centuries. Old literary Russian took shape in the XI-XII centuries; modern literary Russian asserted itself in the XVIII century. There is also a functional asymmetry between Latin, having had a long literary tradition before becoming a liturgical language, and Old Church Slavonic, which was codified on the basis of the Macedonian dialect of Thessalonica for apostolic and liturgical purposes.

East Slavonic dialects...

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