Development of the Bulgarian Literary Language - From Incunabula to First Grammars, Late Fifteenth Early Seventeenth

This book is devoted to the history of the first printed Cyrillic books and their role in the development of the Bulgarian literary language. Petrov presents this history in a broad context of linguistic, terminological, and source-related issues of South Slavic writings and Cyrillic printing of the Eastern Slavs.

List of contents

Contents
Preface to the English translation
Introduction
Chapter 1. Church Slavonic and its Influence on Bulgarian: Conceptions of Description and Interpretation
Chapter 2. Incunabula and Cyrillic Old Prints: Questions of Taxonomy and Nomenclature
Chapter 3. South Slavic Cyrillic Paleotypy in the 16^th Century: Basic Traditions and Source Contexts
Conclusions
List of Source Text Editions
References
Further Reading
Indices

About the author

By Ivan N. Petrov - Translated by Marek Majer and Katarzyna Gucio

Product details

• Authors: Ivan N Petrov, Ivan N. Petrov
• Assisted by: Katarzyna Gucio (Translation), Marek Majer (Translation)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.03.2021
• EAN: 9781498586078
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8607-8
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: Studies in Slavic, Baltic, and Eastern European Languages and Cultures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Slavic Languages (Other), Literature: history & criticism, Historical & comparative linguistics, Language teaching and learning, Literature: history and criticism, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Historical and comparative linguistics, Slavic (Slavonic) languages, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Eastern