Not directly language-related, but this is such an amazing selection of freely accessible books I can’t resist passing it along for anyone interested. Click on the URL, then when the book page comes up click on “Contents,” and you can download the pdfs. And, wait, here’s some language-related stuff: Old Church Slavonic Grammar, by Horace G. Lunt, and Slavic on the Language Map of Europe: Historical and Areal-Typological Dimensions, edited by Andrii Danylenko and Motoki Nomachi, not to mention A “Handbook” to the Russian Text of Crime and Punishment by Edgar H. Lehrman. Via Martin Krohs at FB.
The book Slavic on the Language Map of Europe has a chapter called, Matrёška and areal clusters involving varieties of Slavic. On methodology and data treatment.
Yes, that looks interesting (that chapter is by Björn Wiemer). And here’s the first footnote:
That’s a pretty established usage nowadays.
Sure, I just thought it was worth quoting in view of the discussions we’ve had around here on the topic.
That’s wonderful, Hat. I see this on the list also:
From the Bible to Shakespeare
Pantelejmon Kuliš (1819–1897) and the Formation of Literary Ukrainian
Andrii Danylenko
Ooh, I missed that — thanks!
and this
Cross-Cultural Encounters on the Ukrainian Steppe
Settling the Molochna Basin, 1784-1861
John R. Staples
seems relevant for the molokane (et al) history!
(though because of a rather different rabbithole i’ve been falling down lately, this is probably the most immediately exciting: Ukrainian Epic and Historical Song: Folklore in Context by Natalie Kononenko.
just dropping back in to say, of Slavic on the Language Map of Europe: wow! people are still publishing paul wexler! as a scholar, he’s a fine conceptual artist, but how on earth does his garbage get past peer review? (rhetorical question, i know perfectly well)
Too bad, too, because every other article in the book looks interesting and worthwhile, but when I got down the TOC to Wexler I thought, maybe not all of them are as good as they seem.
people are still publishing paul wexler! as a scholar, he’s a fine conceptual artist, but how on earth does his garbage get past peer review?
I read this as a single sentence due to the missing capital on “as”, since “!” is not necessarily sentence-terminal punctuation.
So did I.
people are still publishing paul wexler (yeah, paul wexler) as a scholar