36.3288, Books: Common Slavic Into East Slavic: Feinberg (2025)

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Date: 24-Oct-2025
From: Ulrich Lueders [contact at lincom.eu]
Subject: Common Slavic Into East Slavic: Feinberg (2025)


Title: Common Slavic Into East Slavic
Subtitle: Diachronic Phonology from Prehistory to the 14th Century
Series Title: LINCOM Studies in Slavic Linguistics 42
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Lincom GmbH
           https://lincom-shop.eu/
Book URL:
https://lincom-shop.eu/epages/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d.sf/de_DE/?ObjectPath=/Shops/57709feb-b889-4707-b2ce-c666fc88085d/Products/%22ISBN%20%209783969392430%22

Author(s): Lawrence E. Feinberg

Paperback. 17x24 cm. ISBN  9783969392430 (Paperback). LINCOM Studies
in Slavic Linguistics 42. 198pp. EUR 62.80. 2025.

Abstract:

The field of East Slavic historical linguistics has undergone dramatic
change over the past 50 years. Progress in dialectology and
accentology, along with the steady accretion of new primary materials
(Novgorod birchbark texts), has rendered obsolete many of the formulas
that have traveled from handbook to handbook. The teacher of the
history of East Slavic faces the problem of how to combine the facts
established and insights gained by recent scholarship with what
remains valuable in traditional work. That is the task the author set
himself in this book. Starting from Proto-Indo-European and
Proto-Slavic, he analyzes the Common Slavic developments that led to
the dialect state reflected in the earliest monuments, with particular
attention to Early East Slavic.
The author then shows how the Common Slavic loss of reduced vowels
(jers) in the 12th -13th cc. led to the formation of three distinct
dialect complexes, Ukrainian, Belorusian and Russian, within the
relatively uniform eastern branch of Late Common Slavic. While other
recent surveys have been content to set out the ascertainable facts
and illustrate change via diachronic correspondences and sets of
cognates, the focus throughout is on successive synchronic states. The
book is designed for students with a solid foundation in at least one
modern Slavic language – ideally, familiar with Old Church Slavonic as
well.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Slavic

Written In: English (eng)



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