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The Fourth Palatalization of Velars in Southwest Ukrainian: The Case of the Kryvorivnja Dialect Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Oksana Lebedivna
The paper deals with the fourth palatalization of velars in the Kryvorivnja dialect, one of the southeastern Hutsul dialects of Southwest Ukrainian, in its connection with the tendency toward intra...
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Приставочные глаголы движения в русском языке: видовая коррелятивность и видообразование Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Elena Gorbova
The paper presents the results of a corpus and Runet study of the imperfectivability and aspectual correlation of Russian prefixed verbs which are derivatives of verbs of motion (VoM), a group of R...
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Rysk kultur i tusen år [A thousand years of Russian culture] Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Kåre Johan Mjør
Published in Scando-Slavica (Vol. 69, No. 2, 2023)
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From Bound to Free: On the Degrammaticalization of the Polish Intensifying Prefix prze- Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Damian Herda
Based on empirical material derived from the National Corpus of Polish and supplemental web-based sources, this paper provides an account of a recent change affecting the Polish intensifying prefix...
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Reflexive or Not? Choosing a Possessive in Bulgarian, Czech, and Russian Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Tatiana Perevozchikova
This article investigates the competition between reflexive and non-reflexive possessive pronouns in 1PSG contexts in Bulgarian, Czech, and Russian. Using comparable web corpora, I assessed the dis...
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From the Editor Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Susanna Witt
Published in Scando-Slavica (Vol. 69, No. 2, 2023)
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Там – здесь, далеко – близко, высоко – низко: пространственно-визуальное моделирование двоемирия в «Стихах о Прекрасной Даме» А. Блока Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Zifa Temirgazina, Lyudmila Tokatova, Gibadat Orynkhanova
Aleksandr Blok’s cycle “Poems about the Beautiful Lady” embodies the romantic-mystical concept of dvoemirija (‘a dual world’): the world of the lyrical hero and the world of the Beautiful Lady. The...
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The MUST (musieć) Serial Verb Construction in Polish Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Alexander Andrason
The present article is dedicated to a bi-verbal construction built around the verb musieć ‘must’ and another finite verb, e.g., musiał poszedł ‘he must have left.’ By testing this construction for ...
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“Threat” in Russian – A Linguistic Perspective Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Anastasia Makarova, Tore Nesset
The present study explores a frequent concept in modern media discourse, namely “threat,” based on a corpus analysis of the two Russian nouns groza and ugroza from 1800 to 2020. We show that the tw...
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A Unique Copy of Alphabetum Russarum, Printed in Stockholm by Peter van Selow Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Ingrid Maier
This paper describes a virtually unknown Russian alphabet table, Alphabetum Russarum. It consists of only two leaves and presents the Russian alphabet, including detailed pronunciation rules in Lat...
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Spill de la vida religiosa in Slavic Literature Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Mirosława Hanusiewicz-Lavallee
The paper investigates a Slavic fragment from a chain of “relay” translations of one of the most popular religious books of early modern Europe, i.e., the anonymous Catalan allegory Spill de la vid...
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Scandinavia in Research on Slavic Wooden Architecture: Inspiration, Point of Reference and Part of Imagined Pasts Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Jerzy Gorzelik
Based on texts from art history and ethnology, this paper examines three aspects of Scandinavia’s role in studying the wooden architecture of the Slavs up to 1945. First, it is pointed out that Dah...
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When Modality and Tense Meet. The Future Marker budet ‘will’ in Impersonal Constructions with the Modal Adverb možno ‘be possible’ Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Elmira Zhamaletdinova
This paper examines Russian impersonal constructions with the modal word možno ‘can, be possible’ with and without the future copula budet ‘will be,’ i.e., možno + budet + inf and možno + inf. My c...
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From the Editor Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Susanna Witt
Published in Scando-Slavica (Vol. 69, No. 1, 2023)
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К семантике и типологии аквизитивной модальности: шведское orka и его синонимы на фоне русского языка Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Vladimir Plungian, Karine Åkerman Sarkisian
ABSTRACT The so-called acquisitive modality or actuality, describing a successful realization of an action, is a largely understudied type of modal values. It is of significant interest both from the viewpoint of its grammaticalization paths and of a wide and rich variety of its lexical expression. The article discusses one of the main representatives of this lexical class in Swedish, the hard-to-translate
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Linguistic Analysis of Church Slavonic Documents: A Mixed-Methods Approach Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Achim Rabus, Ivan N. Petrov
ABSTRACT The study is concerned with Church Slavonic manuscripts and early printed books at the threshold of modernity. It has the methodological aim of applying and evaluating a quantitative and qualitative mixed-methods approach for analyzing pre-modern Slavic textual culture. With respect to the quantitative part of the study, the authors make use of the Handwritten Text Recognition tool Transkribus
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The Slavic Expansion. Streams, Springs, and Wells Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Henning Andersen
ABSTRACT The Slavic Expansion during the 300s–700s poses interesting problems of interpretation (§1). This paper considers ways of procuring water, which is inomissible for any population – whether stable or expanding – and suggests that the Slavic Expansion comprised three modes of settlement, (i) along water courses, (ii) by natural springs, and (iii) dependent on hand-dug wells. The progression
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Пропагандистский дискурс в «Сказе о тульском косом Левше и стальной блохе» Н. С. Лескова Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Maya Kucherskaya
ABSTRACT This article revisits the sources that Nikolaj Leskov used for “The Tale of Cross-eyed Lefty from Tula and the Steel Flea.” The research of the historical context for the creation of “Lefty” and of some previously unaccounted-for pretexts and sources allows us to assert that behind Leskov’s stylization and imitation of the oral speech of an ingenuous narrator lies a stinging parody of Russian
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Стихотворение Осипа Мандельштама «Телефон»: суицидальный и любовный сюжет Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Olga Bartoshevich-Zhagel
ABSTRACT This paper offers an analysis of Osip Mandel'štam’s comparatively understudied poem “Telephone” (June 1918). The author considers in detail Mandel'štam’s four poems to Anna Achmatova, which are quoted in the “Telephone”, and analyzes Achmatova’s memoirs, in which the entire text of the poem is recited immediately after the story of her break-up with the poet. On the basis of the motif analysis
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A Problem of Balto-Slavic Morphology: The Case of Endings of the Instrumental Singular and Plural of the Consonant and i-stem Inflections Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Birgit Anette Olsen
ABSTRACT The endings of the instrumental singular and plural in Balto-Slavic present a few problematic details. Apart from the selection of the dialectal variants in *-m- rather than *-bh- shared by Germanic, and the substitution of the original *-h1 by an*-m-ending in the singular of the consonant and i-stems in both Baltic and Slavic, there is a discrepancy between the short i-vowel of the cognate
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The Things of Life: Materiality in Late Soviet Russia Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Simo Mikkonen
Published in Scando-Slavica (Vol. 69, No. 1, 2023)
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Strategic Uses of Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict: Interest and Identity in Russia and the Post-Soviet Space Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Klas-Göran Karlsson
Published in Scando-Slavica (Vol. 69, No. 1, 2023)
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From the Editor Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Susanna Witt
Published in Scando-Slavica (Vol. 68, No. 2, 2022)
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Special Issue: Jagiellonian Heritage in Poland, Lithuania, Sweden and Finland Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Ewa Cybulska-Bohuszewicz, Renata Ingbrant
Published in Scando-Slavica (Vol. 68, No. 2, 2022)
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The Books of King Sigismund at Uppsala University Library Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Peter Sjökvist
ABSTRACT When Uppsala University Library was formally founded in 1620 and 1621, the book depot of the Crown, previously located on Gråmunkeholmen (today’s Riddarholmen) in Stockholm, was donated there. This collection inter alia contained the confiscated library of a Swedish nobleman and remnants from medieval Swedish monastery libraries. As Otto Walde conclusively proved in 1915, it also contained
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Sigismund II Augustus’ Volumes in Åbo Akademi Library, Finland: Renaissance Books in a Transnational, National and Regional Context Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Susanna Niiranen
ABSTRACT The present article explores the history of three medical volumes that once belonged to the important book collection of the King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, Sigismund II Augustus (1520–1572), and its possible itinerary to Finland, where it is currently located in Åbo Akademi Library, Turku. The article sheds light on the people and professions who were interested in the valuable
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Changing Fashions: Examining the Clothing of Catherine Jagiellon in Sixteenth-Century Polish and Swedish Documents Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Nina Manninen
ABSTRACT This article reviews the clothing of Catherine Jagiellon (1526–83), the Princess of Poland, Duchess of Finland (1562–1583), Grand Princess of Finland (1581–1583), and Queen of Sweden (1569–1583), in two documents which constitute the main sources for her possessions. The first document was written in connection with Catherine’s wedding with Duke John of Finland in Vilnius in 1562 as an inventory
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A Catholic among Lutherans – Catherine Jagiellon in the light of Feliks Skarżyński’s funeral sermon Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Anna Nath-Dokurno
ABSTRACT Catherine Jagiellon died in Stockholm in September of 1583. Before her funeral in Sweden, a mourning ceremony was organized for her in Poland. This funeral sermon, entitled Kazanie na obsequiach żałobnych królewny Katarzyny Jagiełłówny and pronounced by Father Feliks Skarżyński, has not yet been subject to a thorough analysis by scholars investigating the life of the Swedish queen. The present
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Anna Vasa’s Patronage. Natural Science, Theology and Literature appendix Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Dariusz Chemperek
ABSTRACT The aim of the article is to present the patronage of the Princess Anna Vasa (1568–1625) in the field of botany and Protestant theology in Poland and to present arguments in favor of the hypothesis about her co-authorship of the polemical brochure Slaktarebenck (1617). Anna’s merit is the significant financial support in publishing Zielnik … (1613) by Simon Syreński (1540–1611). This publication
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In Defence of the Absent King. Baroness Ebba Stenbock and the Fight for King Sigismund, 1597–1599 Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Anu Lahtinen
ABSTRACT The present article deals with the political agency of Baroness Ebba Stenbock, the widow of Klaus Fleming, in the power struggle of the 1590s, when Duke Charles and King Sigismund were struggling for the throne of the Swedish Realm. Widow of the most ardent supporter of King Sigismund, Baroness Ebba became famous for participating in the politics of the time and even in the defense of the
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Occasional Literature on the Victory at Smolensk Won in 1634 by Władysław IV Vasa, Grandson of the Jagiellonian Dynasty – a Review Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Michał Kuran
ABSTRACT Władysław IV Vasa was the grandson of Catherine Jagiellon, wife of John III of Sweden. His Jagiellonian origin is mentioned by the authors of occasional works about the war for Smolensk. The present article sets out to review the occasional literature accompanying Władysław’s expedition and the Smolensk victory in 1634. It takes into account the structure and subject matter of the works, as
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The Image of Sweden and Finland in The Chronicle of the Whole World by Marcin Bielski: Prolegomena to Further Research Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Ewa Cybulska-Bohuszewicz
ABSTRACT The present article discusses the description of Sweden and Finland in the third edition of Kronika wszytkiego świata (The Chronicle of All the World) from 1564 by the Polish historian Marcin Bielski (1495–1575). This work is considered one of the most important chronicles of the Jagiellonian era. It is also the first so-called “universal history” (or “universal chronicle”) published in Polish
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Some Aspects of the Lithuanian–Swedish Historical Relations (until the Beginning of the 17th Century) Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Raimonda Ragauskienė
ABSTRACT The present article analyses the historical relations between the peoples who inhabited the territories of today’s Lithuania and Sweden during the longue durée period from the first contacts until the beginning of the 17th century. The study, based on a rich historiography, provides a synthetic view of the issue, emphasizing the “Lithuanian perspective” – mutual communication on the present-day
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Language as a Path to the Past. Studies on the Jagiellon Era in the Era of Digital Humanities (on the Example of the Polish Language) Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Patrycja Potoniec
ABSTRACT The paper discusses Internet resources concerning written Polish documents from the 16th century, concentrating mainly on the Dictionary of the 16th-Century Polish Language (www.spxvi.edu.pl), which includes both a text database, a dictionary and a language corpus. All these resources provide information on the history of the Jagiellon dynasty, both directly, through royal correspondence,
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Russia’s Theatrical Past: Court Entertainment in the Seventeenth Century Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Maria Berlova
Published in Scando-Slavica (Vol. 68, No. 2, 2022)
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Picturing the Page. Illustrated Children’s Literature and Reading under Lenin and Stalin Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Dorena Caroli
Published in Scando-Slavica (Vol. 68, No. 2, 2022)
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Russian in the 1740s Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Derek Offord
Published in Scando-Slavica (Vol. 68, No. 2, 2022)
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Russlands rebeller: Protest og reaksjon i Putins Russland (2011–2020) Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Martin Paulsen
Published in Scando-Slavica (Vol. 68, No. 2, 2022)
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Magnus Ljunggren in memoriam Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Lars Kleberg, Barbara Lönnqvist
Published in Scando-Slavica (Vol. 68, No. 2, 2022)
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From the Editor Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Per Ambrosiani
(2022). From the Editor. Scando-Slavica: Vol. 68, No. 1, pp. 1-2.
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Spaces of Collective Memory in Contemporary Russian Women’s Historical Fiction Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Tintti Klapuri, Jenniliisa Salminen
ABSTRACT This article focuses on the connection between collective memory and fictional spatiality in three novels by contemporary Russian female authors: Ljudmila Ulickaja’s Zelënyj šatër, Elena Čižova’s Vremja ženščin, and Guzel′ Jachina’s Zulejcha otkryvaet glaza. These fictionalized versions of the Soviet past aim at overturning the idea of a unitary historical narrative, instead offering multiple
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Norwegian Compounds and Corresponding Constructions in Russian: The Case of Nouns with Deverbal Heads Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Tore Nesset
ABSTRACT This article presents a corpus study of Norwegian compounds with deverbal heads (e.g., papirproduksjon ‘paper production’ from produsere ‘produce’) and corresponding constructions in Russian, such as the genitive (proizvodstvo bumagi ‘paper production’), the adjective (bumažnoe proizvodstvo ‘paper production’), the preposition (priglašenie na užin ‘dinner invitation’), and compound constructions
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Changing Gender of Self-Reference in the Polish Dialects of the Silesian Beskids Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Rafał Szeptyński
ABSTRACT This article deals with the masculine gender of self-reference in women's speech attested in the Polish dialects of the Silesian Beskids. It aims at identifying the diachronic relation between this phenomenon and the neuter gender used in the same function in the adjacent territories. Children – irrespective of sex – developed the neuter gender of self-reference in parallel to neuter forms
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On the Discursive Construction of Dialectal Varieties: The Case of Central South Slavic ‘Supradialects’ Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Vuk Vukotić
ABSTRACT This paper critically examines the construction of ‘supradialects’ (BCMS narječje) in Central South Slavic (CSS) dialectology. The concept is unique because it is usually placed in the hierarchy of varieties above ‘dialect’ and below ‘language’, also because supradialects are indicated as the ‘dialectal bases’ of Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian (BCMS) languages (and their predecessor
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Lars Erik Blomqvist in memoriam 1942–2021 Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2022-05-03 Magnus Ljunggren, translated by Julie Hansen
(2022). Lars Erik Blomqvist in memoriam 1942–2021. Scando-Slavica: Vol. 68, No. 1, pp. 197-200.
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From the editor Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Per Ambrosiani
(2021). From the editor. Scando-Slavica: Vol. 67, No. 2, pp. 157-158.
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Опыт прочтения повести А. С. Пушкина «Метель»: два да едино будет … Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Andrey E. Bochkarev
ABSTRACT The technique of close reading invites us to focus on particular points in the text that helps understand it as a work of art. In Puškin’s “Snowstorm” such points include the image of a snowstorm, literary clichés, paroemia like you cannot get around your intended on a horse (что суженого конем не объедешь), as well as several specific items, such as a Tula signet ring with a symbolic image
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The Spread of Potential Mood Marking in Conditionals in Standard Macedonian Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Eleni Bužarovska
ABSTRACT This paper discusses the consequences of the reintroduction of the potential mood marker bi-construction into the system of conditional marking in standard Macedonian. This marker had been almost lost from the Balkanized conditional patterns in Macedonian dialects which were based on the opposition hypothetical vs. counterfactual. The counterfactual was realized by the isomorphic Balkan conditional
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Путеводитель как форма современной русской транскультурной прозы: прагматика и поэтика Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Anna Ljunggren
ABSTRACT This article explores the use of the guidebook as a narrative form in the work of a number of “displaced” Russian authors (Joseph Brodsky, Andreï Makine, Michail Šiškin). In literary fiction, the guidebook is a documentary-literary hybrid inscribed into the wider frame of postmodernism. It is a fusion of a document with its informative function, autobiography and historiosophic essay. Literary
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The Prehistory of the Proto-Slavic Abstract Suffix *-ostь and its Baltic Congeners Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Marek Majer
ABSTRACT The study deals with the origin of the Proto-Slavic adjective abstract suffix *-ostь. Firstly, the existing proposals are systematized and evaluated. It is concluded that the most promising explanation is the one according to which the suffix *-ostь was metanalyzed from regular abstract nouns in *-ь (*zelenь -i ‘the color green’ ← *zelenъ ‘green’) built to an old class of adjectives in *-ostъ
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The Fury’s Revenge: An Ecofeminist Reading of Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Ellen Mortensen
ABSTRACT In this reading of Olga Tokarczuk’s novel Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, the theme of revenge is explored, as it relates to the protagonist’s ecofeminist revolt against what she considers to be a male-dominated society, which disregards human and animal life in its pursuit of power and profit. The novel is investigated through an analysis of plot structure and character analysis
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Гетеротопии в художественном мире Марины Цветаевой (на материале стихотворных циклов «Ахматовой» и «Стихи к Блоку») Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Yulia Pasko
ABSTRACT This article is devoted to the study of Marina Cvetaeva’s poetic cycles “Achmatova” and “Poems for Blok” and takes as a point of departure Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia. I use the characteristics of heterotopia suggested by the French thinker as an instrument for analysing the spatial organization of poetic texts, considering it separately in each cycle, but also pointing to similarities
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The Žemaitian Accent Retraction as a Typological Parallel to Olander’s Mobility Law Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Vytautas Rinkevičius
ABSTRACT In his 2009 monograph, Thomas Olander presented a new solution to the old problem of the origin of Balto-Slavic mobile accent paradigms. According to his “mobility law,” pre-Proto-Balto-Slavic words accented on the final mora became phonologically unaccented and automatically received ictus on the first syllable of the phonological word, as in *longós > *ˌlāˀngas > Lith. lángas, CS *lǫ̑gъ
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Depicting the Divine: Mikhail Bulgakov and Thomas Mann Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Irina Belobrovtseva
(2021). Depicting the Divine: Mikhail Bulgakov and Thomas Mann. Scando-Slavica: Vol. 67, No. 2, pp. 287-294.
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Aleksandr Puškin: Russlands store dikter Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Karin Kukkonen
(2021). Aleksandr Puškin: Russlands store dikter. Scando-Slavica: Vol. 67, No. 2, pp. 294-296.
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“My Dear, Close and Distant Friend”: Nina Berberova’s Letters to Sergej Rittenberg (1947–1975) Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Manfred Schruba
(2021). “My Dear, Close and Distant Friend”: Nina Berberova’s Letters to Sergej Rittenberg (1947–1975) Scando-Slavica: Vol. 67, No. 2, pp. 296-301.
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Leonard Neuger in memoriam 1947–2021 Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2021-12-02 Renata Ingbrant
(2021). Leonard Neuger in memoriam 1947–2021. Scando-Slavica: Vol. 67, No. 2, pp. 302-306.
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From the editor Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2021-06-08 Per Ambrosiani
(2021). From the editor. Scando-Slavica: Vol. 67, Special Issue: Russian Historical Morphosyntax in the Light of Language Contact, pp. 1-1.
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Special Issue: Russian Historical Morphosyntax in the Light of Language Contact Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2021-06-08 Elena Bratishenko, Larisa Leisiö
(2021). Special Issue: Russian Historical Morphosyntax in the Light of Language Contact. Scando-Slavica: Vol. 67, Special Issue: Russian Historical Morphosyntax in the Light of Language Contact, pp. 2-4.
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Definiteness in Slavic, Baltic, and Germanic Scando-Slavica Pub Date : 2021-06-08 Henning Andersen
ABSTRACT This paper offers an exploration of a European linguistic area at the dawn of history and of shifting convergence zones (Sprachbünde) in Europe since prehistoric times. Its main focus is on the development of Adjective-Phrase Definiteness marking in Germanic, Baltic, and Slavic (§1). Traditionally this commonality among the three language groups has been considered a coincidence. But in recent