In two of the most ancient Old Church Slavonic manuscripts, the Codex Marianus and the Codex Zographensis (10th/11th cent.), the morphologically marked vocative shows a substantial continuity with the inflectional classes by themes of Indo-European origin. From a functional or communicative point of view, the vocative case in both manuscripts is used in all contexts when required. Any evident variation in the use of the vocative as in modern Slavic languages was not detected. The few anomalies recorded concern foreign names (anthroponyms and toponyms), archaisms, such as the vocative of the adjective, or they were presumably induced by the effort to stick to the original Greek text. In general, it holds true that the morphological marking of the vocative case also depends on the philological-linguistic sensitivity of the translators themselves.
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Chapter Title
Regolarità e irregolarità morfosintattiche del vocativo nei manoscritti paleoslavi Codex Marianus e Codex Zographensis
Authors
Andrea Trovesi
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0216-9.12
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2023
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Book Title
Studi contrastivi di linguistica slava: grammatica e pragmatica
Editors
Rosanna Benacchio, Lucyna Gebert
Authors
Andrea Trovesi
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Number of Pages
204
Publication Year
2023
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0216-9
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979-12-215-0215-2
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979-12-215-0216-9
Series Title
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
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2612-7687
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2612-7679