Re:Czech-ova/ovà

[ewb2 at CORNELL.EDU]

Therese Albertine Luise von Jacob (pen name Talvj, from her
initials) was a German-American writer and translator in the
19th century. She can be called the first serious Slavist in
the U.S. She began work in Germany in the 1820's, then married
an American biblical scholar named Robinson and moved to the
U.S. 
I bring this up because an article in the journal Slavia
(K. Paul, "J. Bowring, Talvj-Robinsonova a P. J. S^afar^i'k",
Slavia" C^asopis pro slovanskou filologii, Roc^nik IX, 1930-31)
refers to her by her married name plus -ova with a short a.
I was surprised to see this, and a modern Czech colleague
assured me that it could only be -ova', with long a.


Wayles Browne, Assoc. Prof. of Linguistics
Department of Linguistics
Morrill Hall 220, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853, U.S.A.

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P.S. Is there something missing in the previous
contribution? The first line breaks off suddenly:

On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Mila Saskova-Pierce wrote:

> As I remember from Jirasek's historical works, he makes the distinction -ov
> 
> >On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Alina Israeli wrote:
> >
> >> >Czech (and Slovak )language  doesn't distinguish between unmarried and
> >> >married form.It's only  one -ovà (long -à,)form for fem.surnames.
> >> >Katarina Peitlovà,Ph.Dr.
> >>
> >> Was there ever (N)ova/ovna distinction for wife vs. daughter of N?
> >
> >Not -ovna at all, but ova / ová (I realize of course that modern Czech
> >makes no distinction) -- so in Lothar Suchy's play "Sláva" (1905) we have
> >pan Bárta, paní Bártová, but slec^na Bártova (not Bártovna) -- despite
> >what Dr Peitlová writes.
> >
> > Geoffrey Chew
> > Music Department, Royal Holloway, University of London
> > Internet: chew at sun.rhul.ac.uk
> >
> 
> Dr. Mila Saskova-Pierce
> University of Nebraska
> 1133 Oldfather Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588-0315
> Tel:  (402) 472 1336
> 

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