M. Garzaniti, Appunti per un corso di Filologia slava, Firenze, pro manuscripto, 2016 (dispensa).
N. Radovich, Slavo ecclesiastico antico. Grammatica e bibliografia, Napoli 1965 o N. Marcialis, Introduzione alla lingua paleoslava, Firenze, Firenze University Press, 2005.
B.A. Uspenskij, Storia della lingua letteraria russa. Dall’antica Rus’ a Puškin, a cura di N. Marcialis, Bologna, il Mulino, 1993.
M. Garzaniti, Gli slavi. Storia, culture e lingue dalle origini ai nostri giorni, a cura di F. Romoli, con la collaborazione di A. Alberti, M. Betti, A. Cilento, M.C. Ferro, C. Pieralli, L. Pubblici, Roma 2013.
Learning Objectives
The course focuses on development processes of East Slavic area from Common Slavic to Church Slavonic through linguistic diachronic description and analysis of Middle age and Early modern texts providing tools for the knowledge of the Russian language and its vocabulary.
Prerequisites
Good knowledge of Russian language.
Teaching Methods
Lectures and seminars with presentations of texts.
Further information
For information about prof. Garzaniti see http://www.unifi.it/p-doc2-2013-200007-G-3f2a3d2e382b2d.html
Type of Assessment
Oral examination.
Course program
Introduction: A diachronic and philological approach to the Russian language.
1. From Common Slavic to East Slavic.
1.1. The tripartite division of the Protoslavic ethnolinguistic group.
1.2. The Eastern Slavs and Kievan Rus'.
2. From Common Slavic to modern Russian.
2.1. The invention of the alphabet.
2.2. Old Church Slavonic and Church Slavonic: phonetics and morphology, syntax and vocabulary.
2.3. Church Slavonic, Old Russian and the birth of the new “Russian literary language”.
3. Reading of Middle age and Early modern texts: textual philology and comparative analysis with translations into modern Russian.