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UPPSALA UNIVERSITY lovo Journal of Slavic Languages and Literatures Nr 50, 2010 Department of Modern Languages UPPSALA UNIVERSITY Department of Modern Languages Slovo (Uppsala), 2010, No. 50 Journal of Slavic Languages and Literatures ISSN: 2001-7359 CONTENTS EDITORIAL: SLOVO’S NEW HOME: “THE WEB” 3 SLOVO – SOME (VITAL) STATISTICS ROGER GYLLIN 5 WESTERN BULGARIAN OR MACEDONIAN? THE DOBREJŠO GOSPEL (XIII C.) CYNTHIA M. VAKARELIYSKA 13 VALENSBASERAD SEMANTISK REPRESENTATION LENNART LÖNNGREN 27 CENTRAL SLOVAK AND KAJKAVIAN STRUCTURAL CONVERGENCES: A TENTATIVE SURVEY JUHANI NUORLUOTO 37 FRÅN BORIS GODUNOV TILL GUSTAV II ADOLF: ÖVERSÄTTAREN HANS FLÖRICH I TSARENS OCH SVENSKA KRONANS TJÄNST INGRID MAIER, HEIKO DROSTE 47 SVENSK MYNDIGHETSINFORMATION PÅ SERBISKA, KROATISKA OCH BOSNISKA THOMAS ROSÉN 67 FEMMES FATALES POLSKIEJ WSI: SEKSUALIZM A KONWENCJE SPOŁECZNO- LITERACKIE W POWIEŚCIACH ORZESZKOWEJ, REYMONTA I DĄBROWSKIEJ MAŁGORZATA ANNA PACKALÉN PARKMAN 87 RYSK ROMANTIK PÅ SVENSKA: HUR DEN RYSKA ROMANTIKEN INTRODUCERADES PÅ SVENSKA OCH VARFÖR NILS HÅKANSON 107 BOCKHORNET – EN BULGARISK BERÄTTELSE MELLAN SAGAN OCH SÄGNEN DANIELA ASSENOVA 125 FORTY YEARS OF SLAVIC STUDIES: SVEN GUSTAVSSON’S BIBLIOGRAPHY MY SVENSSON, OLGA KLAUBER 141 BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 2008 157 BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR 2009 161 Slovo (Uppsala), 2010, No. 50, pp. 3-4 ISSN: 0348-744X Journal of Slavic Languages and Literatures Editorial: Slovo’s New Home - the Web There is no substitute for holding a real journal in your hands. On this we all agree. However, with the advent of the Internet many academic and non-academic journals have made the transition from paper to electronic format. Slovo is no exception: the web will be its future home. It all started on a Monday in November 2009, during the regular advanced seminar of the Slavists at Uppsala University. After six years of hibernation, and after discussing the alternatives of letting Slovo hibernate “forever” or having it reappear on the Internet, a decision was made to revive the “old”, established and well-known journal using the publishing form of the future. The change in the publishing praxis of the journal also reflects a generation change among Uppsala Slavists. For centuries, since the Gutenberg press produced the printed word, publishers have played a crucial role between the work of authors and their readers. Now, electronic publishing of scholarly papers on the Internet offers rapid and universal access. These are the main reasons for changing the publication format of the journal. While discussing the destiny of Slovo, no one (at the seminar) was aware that the next Slovo issue would be the 50th one. It was a coincidence that the transition to the web would occur in an anniversary issue. The new format and the anniversary provide an excellent opportunity for celebration, and also give a possibility for some explanations. To begin with, the experienced Slovo reader will notice the change in the journal’s name, where a new logo is incorporated in the letter ‹S› and the subtitle, Journal of Slavic Languages and Literatures, is added to the original name Slovo (Uppsala). Both the logo and the subtitle symbolize the journal’s dedication to the field of Slavic linguistics and literatures in the broadly defined context of historical and synchronic research. Moreover, as Slovo appears to be a relatively common title in that field, it seems reasonable to add distinguishing characteristics, including the logo and the subtitle, to clearly separate it from other periodicals. A significant change in the policy of the journal is its invited contributions from scholars not associated with Uppsala University. Previously, only contributions from scholars directly connected with Uppsala University were published. Our goal from now on is to have one invited external contributor for each issue. The value of a journal lies in the quality of the articles it publishes. First and foremost, this quality comes from the submitting authors, but also from the scholars who voluntarily review these submissions. There is also a considerable time investment on the part of the editors and the advisory board. However, Slovo’s transition to an electronically published journal would not have been possible without the technical support of two graduate students in computer science at Uppsala 3 Slovo (Uppsala), 2010, No. 50 Journal of Slavic Languages and Literatures University: Yunyun Zhu, who created the logo, and Tengjiao Cai, who designed and implemented the homepage. Finally, there are you, the readers, to whom we dedicate our 50th anniversary issue. This issue aims to combine the tradition with the innovations. The background of the journal and its publication history is presented in an article by Roger Gyllin, one of Slovo’s pioneers. Another key contributor is Lennart Lönngren, who is by far the most experienced Slovo-editor. Our first external contributor is Cynthia Vakareliyska from University of Oregon (USA), one of the world’s leading authorities on medieval Slavic gospels. All other contributors in this issue are active in the field of Slavic languages at the Department of Modern Languages (Uppsala University). Ingrid Maier, Małgorzata Anna Packalén Parkman and Thomas Rosén are all senior researchers who have previously published many articles in Slovo, while Daniela Assenova and Nils Håkanson are publishing for the first time in the journal. Juhani Nuorluoto has been the chair of the Slavic Languages division of the Department since 2008. To emphasize this succession, we also are publishing the complete bibliography of the previous chair of Slavic languages, Sven Gustavsson. The articles in the current issue represent the broad range of research at the Department, thematically, methodologically and language-wise. The editors wish to thank all the contributors for their hard work and patience throughout the long maturing process of this special anniversary and inaugural electronic issue. Keeping to tradition, we have decided to publish the articles separately, but combined to form a whole issue. So even though Slovo is on the web, you still can read it the traditional way! Daniela Assenova 4 Slovo (Uppsala), 2010, No. 50, pp. 5-11 ISSN: 0348-744X Journal of Slavic Languages and Literatures Slovo – Some (Vital) Statistics Roger Gyllin Department of Modern Languages, Uppsala University [email protected] Abstract The inaugural issue of Uppsala University’s Slavistics journal Slovo appeared in 1972. This paper discusses the reasons and ambitions behind the initiation of Slovo, followed by an overview of the history of the journal. Forty-nine issues were published over a 32-year period, from 1972–2003. The paper provides basic information on the journal’s editors, contributors, publication frequency, scholarly fields, types of contributions, and language of publication during this period. Over the years, Slovo developed from a journal published exclusively in Swedish and intended only for a Nordic audience to a more international journal with about 50% of its contributions written in non-Nordic languages. 1. Background Forty years ago, options were limited for any Swedish Slavist who wanted to publish a scholarly article. The four existing Slavic departments, at the universities in Uppsala, Lund, Gothenburg and Stockholm, each issued a monograph series; Uppsala’s had the intimidating name Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studia Slavica Upsaliensia. These series published mainly doctoral dissertations. Articles up to sixteen pages in length could be published in Scando-Slavica, an international journal issued as a yearbook by the Association of Scandinavian Slavists and Baltologists. And, of course, there was also the option of submitting a paper to one of the existing Slavistics journals outside Scandinavia. If, however, a Swedish Slavist wanted to publish in Swedish, or to publish a medium-length article (i.e., too short for a monograph but too long for Scando-Slavica or another journal with a similar publishing policy), or to publish a work in progress, there existed no suitable publication fora. Nor was there any way of publishing the talks given on specialized themes at (mini-)symposia. 5 Slovo (Uppsala), 2010, No. 50 Journal of Slavic Languages and Literatures With the advent of a new generation of serious scholars in the Slavic field around 1970, this lack of publishing opportunities was beginning to make itself felt, not least at Uppsala University. Against this background, discussions about founding a Swedish Slavistics journal became a common theme amongst young Uppsala Slavists during coffee breaks and post-seminars. Such a journal needed to be less pretentious, but also more “daring”, than the high-quality but traditional Scando-Slavica and its Continental counterparts that adorned the Department’s journal shelves at the time. It needed to be more directed toward, or at least open to, modern linguistics, which at about this time was somewhat belatedly making a breakthrough in Sweden. Although, in accordance with most scholars’ main interests, the journal needed to focus on linguistics, we did not want to exclude contributions from the fields of literature and cultural history. We made contact with some of our colleagues in Gothenburg and Stockholm (in those days the Slavic Department in Lund lived an isolated existence). Their first question was, not unreasonably, how the new journal would be financed. Although in certain ways the funding system at Swedish universities at that time was better than the one that was later introduced in the early 1990’s, each department was allotted only a very small annual amount to dispose of according to its own needs and whims, e.g. for journal subscriptions and department publications. This meant that additional funds had to be found outside the departments. We approached Uppsala University Vice-Chancellor Torgny Segerstedt about the financing. He promised support for the first year, but no further. Since we had found no other means for financing the planned Swedish Slavistics journal, our ambitions were lowered to publishing an Uppsala Slavic Department journal of modest outward appearance, which had to be self-financed through library subscriptions and sales of individual copies.