BETWEEN THE VERNACULAR AND SLAVENO-RUSYN: THE 'HUKLYVYJ CHRONICLE' AND THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTUARY RUSYN LITERARY LANGUAGE

• Authors: Danylenko Andrii
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

he article deals with the problem of the formation of the Rusyn literary language in Subcarpathia. Critically assessing Paul Magocsi's periodization of the Subcarpathian language question, the author focuses on the pre-modern round, roughly from the late 17th to the late 18th cc., in which the vernacular predominated in the bulk of written texts. The author analyzes the language used by Mykhajlo Grygas(ij)/Hryhas(ij) (1758-1823) in the Huklyvyj Chronicle (1660-1830) against the backdrop of the administrative koiné of Grygasij's circulars as described by István Udvari. Unlike the contemporary jazycije, reflected in Grygasij's administrative koiné, the language of the Chronicle, though comiled in 'peripheral' Subcarpathian Rus', can be viewed as Ruthenian to its core. Based on an analysis of the text, he author treates Grygasij's non-administrative language as exemplary Ruthenian (Middle Ukrainian), the reflecting the Ukrainian perspective of the local Rusyn ethno-linguistic and literary identity throughout the 18th c.

Keywords

EN

'PROSTAYA MOVA' (RUTHENIAN); JAZYCIJE; MIDDLEUKRAINIAN; SLAVENO-RUSYN; SUBCARPATHIAN RUS'

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Slavia Orientalis
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 58
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 53-75
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Danylenko Andrii

• Andrii Danylenko, Department of Modern Languages & Cultures, Pace University, 41 Park Row, New York, USA

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA064421