| Titre | Deux exemples d'interférence linguistique dans les textes novgorodiens anciens : l'église et le maître | |
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| Auteur | Claire Le Feuvre | |
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Revue | Revue des Etudes Slaves |
| Numéro | Vol. 74, no-2-3, 2002 | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 431-440 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Two instances of linguistic interference
in old novgorodian documents : the words for 'church' and 'master'.
Old Novgorodian кьркы and осподинъ are two instances of contamination between the Slavic term and the Scandinavian one. Кьркы for цьркы, far from being a reliable instance of the absence of the second palatalisation of velars in the Novgorodian area, is a re-borrowing from Germanie, this time from Old Swedish, which took place after the palatalisation had ceased to be active. Owing to the fact that Novgorod had an important Varangian community, that Varangians were the fïrst to adopt the new Christian faith, and that they had a dominant position in Novgorodian society, there is nothing surprising in the fact that the Swedish name for 'church' survived for a while in Novgorod. The case of осподинъ is différent : the Novgorodian variant, without [g], is probabbly due not only to the influence of Church pronunciation, as traditionally assumed, but also to the influence of the Old Swedish word for 'master', hosponde, assimilated from husbonds (Engl. husband) : Scandinavian initial [h] was very weak, and is never reflected in Old Russian. The Swedish term, phonetically close to Slavic господинъ, blended with the latter. In both cases, the process is similar : the stem retains its Scandinavian form, and receives the morphological pattern (suffix, inflection) of the corresponding Slavic word. It is also possible that the assimilation in husbonde > hosponde, regular in Old Swedish, is to account for the few cases of progressive assimilation in Old Novgorodian (e.g. сторовъ < съдоровъ, instead of regular здоровъ, with régressive assimilation), which could reflect a Scandinavian-influenced pronunciation. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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