Re: [tied] Old Rus' of the many "nationes"

--- Sergejus Tarasovas <S.Tarasovas@...>
wrote:

> ...I ... have scanned the two
> relevant sources I
> got at hand (the book and an article),/etc../

*****GK: Thanks a lot for all this good stuff
Sergejus.****

> (ST)Before answering your specific question I would

like

> to update some
> of my previous statements.
>
> The language of Pskov and the western part of the
> proper Novgorodian
> lands was North Krivichian (no special affinities
> with any other
> Slavic idiom). The language of the eastern part of
> the Novgorodian
> territory was Ilmen-Slovenian (close to Standard Old
> Rus(sian)
> (=Kievan koine? [the question mark is Zalizniak's
> despite his
> probably Ukrainian last name :)])

*****GK: Just a comment in passing. Thanks to "Soviet
nationalities policy" Russians now have inherited a
lot of -enkos and -iaks, while Ukrainians sport lots
of -ins and -ovs. You can't easily tell who's who (if
you care to know such things) except via knowledge of
the person in question. And as you are probably
probably from your own experience, even secure
identification of someone doesn't guarantee that this
someone will act as you expect him or her to act given
that identification. Which makes life all the more
interesting.*****

>
> (ST)At last, Zalizniak states he wouldn't like to
> discuss the linguistic
> structure of the East Slavic zone in general and
> refers those
> interested to the following Nikolaev's (another
> recognized authority
> on the matter) article: "S. L. Nikolaev. Rannee
> dialektnoje c^lenenie
> i vnes^nie sviazi vostoc^noslavianskix dialektov.
> Voprosy
> jazykoznanija, 1994, Nr. 3, p. 23-49" (which I don't
> have at hand).

****GK: We probably have this here. I'll look it
up.****

>
> Sergei
>
>

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