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New Perspectives on the Early Slavs and the Rise of Slavic

Contact and Migrations

Herausgeber: Klír, Tomáš | Boček, Vít | Jansens, Nicolas

Empirie und Theorie der Sprachwissenschaft, Bd. 6

2021

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Abstract

The volume is addressed to one of the most fascinating issues in contemporary historical linguistics and medieval studies, which is the extremely fast expansion of the Slavic Language across great parts of Europe in the Early Middle Ages. Traditionalists explain the spread of proto-Slavic as a result of migrations in the 6th–7th century and associate that with a specific material culture and with early mentions of ethnic Slavs in written sources. Alternative hypotheses attribute the same evidence to linguistically and genetically quite varied communities and associate the later spread of proto-Slavic with its status as a ‘lingua franca’ or ‘koiné’. The papers in the present volume interpret new methodological and empirical findings from several fields of study, not only from the traditional triad of linguistics, archaeology, and historiography, but also from adjacent disciplines such as religious studies, cultural anthropology, archaeogenetics, and others. The unifying thread is that the question of the relations between Slavic Language, ethnicity, and material culture has differing answers in different geographical and political contexts.

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Titel 3
Imprint 4
Contents 5
Introduction 7
Henning Andersen - On the formation of the Common Slavic ‚koiné‘ 11
Harald Bichlmeier - New methods in etymologizing the oldest layers of river names in Central Europe 43
Felix Biermann - Transformation vs. migration: Early Slavic settlement in the territory of north-eastern Germany as a case study 77
Vít Boček - The rise and expansion of Slavic in the light of Zimmerʼs model of Indo-Europeanization 91
Andrii Danylenko - The Finno-Ugric substrate in North Russian, typological drift, and the sociolinguistic setting of northern Russian resultatives 101
Jiří Dynda - Religion with no voice: Literary construction of Slavic paganism 127
Jadranka Gvozdanović - Evaluating evidence on Slavic migrations 151
Jadranka Gvozdanović,– Václav Blažek - Celto-Slavic lexical parallels 171
Tomáš Klír - Language, material culture, and ethnifying on the Carolingian borders: Slavs in Northeast Bavaria 193
Jouko Lindstedt, Elina Salmela - Migrations and language shifts as components of the Slavic spread 275
Naďa Profantová, Martin Profant - Ethnicity and the Culture with ceramicsof the Prague type (Prague-Korchak) 301
Jiří Rejzek - Linguistic comments on Curta’s making of the Slavs 341
List of contributors 351
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