The Personal and Geographic Names in the Bulgarian and Serbian Translations ofthe Byzantine Versified Synaxarion (Section March)

Taseva, Lora (2013). The Personal and Geographic Names in the Bulgarian and Serbian Translations ofthe Byzantine Versified Synaxarion (Section March). Starobulgarska Literatura(47), pp. 295-312. Bulgarska Akademiya na Naukite

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The paper presents a comparative study of the personal and geographic names
in the two complete Slavic translations of the Byzantine Versified Synaxarion,
namely the Bulgarian and Serbian Prolog Stišnoj, which appeared around the
first half of the 14 th century. On the basis of the March texts in seven South Slavic
manuscripts, the differences in the rendering of the personal names are analysed
on the level of phonetics, orthography, morphology and word formation. The data
allow the following conclusions: 1) The differences in the forms of these names
in the Bulgarian and Serbian Prolog Stišnoj give further arguments supporting
their independent origin; 2) Several specific tendencies are noted which more or
less differentiate them. The Bulgarian translation reproduces more accurately
the graphics of the original names, allows dativus possessivus, often replaces the
Greek anthroponyms and toponyms with adjectives, presents many local names in
the plural, and sometimes retains Greek nominative endings in masculine personal
names. The Serbian translation, on the other hand, follows more often the Byzantine
pronunciation of the names, complies more strictly with their grammatical
characteristics (case, number), separates more often the ending -ς from the stem,
and incorporates the accusative ending -ν into the stem of certain anthroponyms
several times. 3) The tendency towards Slavicisation of the personal names is nearly
the same in both translations and cannot be viewed as peculiar of either of them.

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