Smirnova E. A. The Gospel of Vasilii Tiapinskii: Toward a Reconstruction of the Verb System of “Prosta Mova” / ed. by V. S. Efimova. Moscow: Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2024. 416 p.: Book review
Abstract
The reviewed monograph presents an attempt to reconstruct the verb system of the written language of Lithuanian Rus’ in the 16th-17th centuries. The analysis is based on the published Gospels of Matthew and Mark by Vasilii Tiapinskii, which juxtapose a column of Church Slavonic text with a column in “prosta mova”, known in literature as West Russian / Ruthenian / Old Belarusian. The monograph describes linguistic variability in the area of verb inflection, arising, in part, as a result of Polish language influence. The appendices to the monograph contain text of the source material set in Cyrillica Bulgarian, a morphologically categorized list of verb forms present in the text, a verb index, and a facsimile reproduction of the pages of the source.
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- Received: April 13, 2025.
- Published: May 19, 2025.
Keywords
- Василий Тяпинский
- западнорусский язык
- рутенский язык
- старобелорусский язык
- церковнославянский язык
- система глагольных форм
- Vasilii Tiapinskii
- West Russian language
- Ruthenian language
- Old Belarusian language
- Church Slavonic language
- verb system
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