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Introduction
Constantine Borissoff currently works as an independent researcher in Phonetics, History of Linguistics and Historical Linguistics. His most recent publication is 'РУССКО-САНСКРИТСКИЙ СРАВНИТЕЛЬНЫЙ СЛОВАРЬ [RUSSIAN - SANSKRIT COMPARATIVE DICTIONARY] (DEMONSTRATION SAMPLE) draft version 8'.
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September 2010 - October 2011
September 2008 - June 2010
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This article traces the development of the concept of the ‘basis of articulation’ in Russia of the first half of the 20th century, analysing in detail the major works in this area of research. In Russia this concept took a specific course of development. From the beginning it has been mainly conceived as a ‘summation of features’, distinguishing ph...
Basis of Articulation (BA) and Articulatory
Setting (AS) have been used for decades as
synonyms but they represent two distinct,
although closely related, ideas that are not
interchangeable. The paper gives an assessment
of the application of the BA and AS concepts in
pronunciation teaching and shows some
implications and advantages of differentiat...
The paper examines the traditional explanation of the Eastern-Slavonic deity Xors as an Iranian loan from the Persian xwaršēδ/xoršid ‘sun’ and advances an alternative etymology via the Indo-Aryan root hṛṣ-, Indo-European *g̑hers- and its cognates in other Indo-European languages. Based on the linguistic and mythological comparative analysis Xors is...
This paper analyses in detail a little-known article by Antun Mihanović highlighting his role as one of the pioneers of Slavonic comparative studies. Although the article was written under the influence of the German romantic nationalism, the ideological pointedness should not overshadow its significance as a remarkable, for the time, piece of comp...
The dictionary is the first comprehensive study of lexical similarities between Russian and Sanskrit. In creating it, the authors drew on the contributions and historical works of Russian and other linguistic researchers of etymology, especially the Russian Academician O. N. Trubachev and “Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages” published by V...
Published in Труды Института русского языка им. В.В. Виноградова, №4, 2021
The report sets out the background to the making of a Russian-Sanskrit Comparative dictionary and the main technical aspects of the project (С. L. Borissoff). The final part of the report highlights the significance of this work in addressing some important issues related to the ethnogenesis of the Slavs raised by O. N. Trubachev: the time and plac...
В статье сообщаются некоторые небезынтересные для русской этимологии результаты совместного лексикографического проекта К. Л. Борисова и А. К. Шапошникова [Русско-санскритский сравнительный словарь]. В процессе составления словаря, соавторы обнаружили много новых случаев санскритско-русских изоглосс, пропущенных или не получивших должного освещения...
The paper examines the traditional explanation of the Eastern-Slavonic deity Xors as an Iranian loan from the Persian xwaršēδ/xoršid ‘sun’ and advances an alternative etymology via the Indo-Aryan root hṛṣ-, Indo-European *g̑hers- and its cognates in other Indo-European languages. Based on the linguistic and mythological comparative analysis Xors is...
Abstract
This dissertation investigates the notion of the Basis of Articulation (BA) in relation to the widely used concept of Articulatory Setting (AS) with specific focus on English and Russian as examples.
After a detailed survey of the original sources and contemporary literature it is concluded that the BA and AS represent two distinct althoug...
