Svetlana Tolstaya
Biographic Data
| ID | 206036 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Svetlana Tolstaya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Svetlana |
| FAMILY NAME | Tolstaya |
| SIGNATURE | TOLSTAYA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Slavic Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Materials for a Comparative Dictionary of Slavic Languages
С 2024 г. в Институте славяноведения ведется работа над сравнительным идеографическим словарем славянских языков, включающим базовую лексику всех славянских языков и некоторых соседних с ними и взаимодействующих с ними языков – литовского, греческого, румынского, венгерского, албанского. Этот словарь представляет собой расширенную применительно к славянским языкам версию известного «Словаря избранных инодоевропейских синонимов» Карла Бака, изданн…
The Living and the Dead in Slavic Folk Culture
Slavic folk culture is a fusion of Christian and of pre-Christian, pagan beliefs based on magic. This article is devoted specifically to ancient pre-Christian ideas about death and posthumous existence and the associated magical rituals and prohibitions, which persist to our time. It considers the following interactions between the living and the dead: 1. the measures taken and prohibitions observed by the living to ensure their well-being in the…
Mutabilities of the Verb byt’ ‘to be’ in the Language of Olonets Lamentations
The article examines the forms of the verb byt’ ‘to be’ in the language of Olonets lamentations, which in their meanings and functions differ from the standard uses of the all-Russian (literary and dialect) language. The forms of the present (e, est’ ‘is’, net, netu ‘is not’), past (by, bylo ‘was’) and future (budu/budet ‘will be’) and their derivatives appear in various constructions (in combination with personal verb forms, participle, infiniti…
Forum 58
Linguistic anthropology taken as a union of linguistics and anthropology in the study of language and culture was established more than a century ago. In recent decades, one can observe signs both of its gradual integration into the Western anthropological project, and of a its certain esotericization and marginalization. In Russian academia, a stricter division of labor is normal: ethnographers deal with culture, philologists and linguists deal …
Names of Trees in East Slavic Charms
The paper deals with the Proto-Slavic two-part personal names reconstructed in the Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages (EDSL), vols. 1–42. Indo-European by their origin, these names retained their use among all Slavs even after the adoption of Christianity and the assimilation of the Christian name set. The author examines the set of lexical units that occur in two-part proto-Slavic anthroponyms, the rules of their design (pure basis, tru…
Christianity and Slavic Folk Culture
In Slavic folk culture, Christianity is a foreign, borrowed cultural model, while the oral tradition is native and familiar. The different areas of folk culture were influenced to varying degrees by the Christian tradition. The most dependent area of Slavic folk culture on Christianity was the calendar. In many cases, it only superficially accepted the Christian content of calendar elements and reinterpreted it in accordance with the traditional …
On Metrics of the “Lamentations of Northern Russia”
The article deals with the metric of Northern Russian lamentations collected and published by E.V. Barsov 150 years ago (more than 26,000 verses). The first part of the article analyzes the syllable count (length) of lamentations. “Long&8j1; 14-and 13-syllable lines are typical for recruitment and wedding lamentations (80% and 85%, respectively), and 13-and 12-syllable ones – for funeral lamentations (more than 82%). “Short&8j1; lines (8-, 9-, 10…
Notes on the language of Northern Russian lamentations. 2. Composite nominations, their structure and semantics
The paper is devoted to the language of the Northern Russian lamentations collected and published by E.V. Barsov 150 years ago. The author uses the material of wedding lamentations to study the typical folklore language — composite nominations, i.e. nouns, verbs, and other parts of speech formed on the basis of two (rarely three) lexical units: 1) integral compound words (svet-batiushka, drug-podruzhka, zvon-unylyj), 2) phrases with an applicatio…
To the Etymology of the Name Vladimir
Amongst other ancient Slavic pre-Christian two-part anthroponyms, the name Vladimir (*Voldimirъ) has been a recurrent subject of etymological analysis. However, some aspects of its etymology remain unclear. The article discusses four main issues: 1) the morphology of the first member of the name (is it a noun or a verb stem?); 2) the meaning of the second element of the name (-mirъ as ‘pax’ or ‘mundus’?); 3) the correlation between Old Russian na…
Lexis of the Russian North
The article analyzes the current state of the studies on the vocabulary of the Russian North dialects. The concept of the Russian North is discussed, the Russian North dialectal zone is briefly characterized in light of its linguistic features, of the Northern Russian dialectal vocabulary size in comparison with the Southern Russian dialects, and of the fundamental importance of its study for Slavic linguistics in general. The article also presen…
The Ethnolinguistic Study of Polesie, 1995–2016
Time as an Instrument of Magic
In the traditional folk culture of the Slavs, time, together with other elements and features of the external world, is given both a positive and a negative meaning: it could be good or bad, clean or dirty, dangerous or safe. From the time when a man is born, his destiny is established, and by the time he is dead his destiny after death is defined; the selection of the accurate timing is an indispensable condition for success of all beginnings: p…
Nutrition (Pitanije) and nurture (vospitanije) in the light of the Slavic lexicon
Christianity and Slavic Folk Culture
In Slavic folk culture, Christianity is a foreign, borrowed cultural model, while the oral tradition is native and familiar. The different areas of folk culture were influenced to varying degrees by the Christian tradition. The most dependent area of Slavic folk culture on Christianity was the calendar. In many cases, it only superficially accepted the Christian content of calendar elements and reinterpreted it in accordance with the traditional …
Time as an Instrument of Magic
In the traditional folk culture of the Slavs, time, together with other elements and features of the external world, is given both a positive and a negative meaning: it could be good or bad, clean or dirty, dangerous or safe. From the time when a man is born, his destiny is established, and by the time he is dead his destiny after death is defined; the selection of the accurate timing is an indispensable condition for success of all beginnings: p…
Nutrition (Pitanije) and nurture (vospitanije) in the light of the Slavic lexicon
The Ethnolinguistic Study of Polesie, 1995–2016
Lexis of the Russian North
The article analyzes the current state of the studies on the vocabulary of the Russian North dialects. The concept of the Russian North is discussed, the Russian North dialectal zone is briefly characterized in light of its linguistic features, of the Northern Russian dialectal vocabulary size in comparison with the Southern Russian dialects, and of the fundamental importance of its study for Slavic linguistics in general. The article also presen…
On Metrics of the “Lamentations of Northern Russia”
The article deals with the metric of Northern Russian lamentations collected and published by E.V. Barsov 150 years ago (more than 26,000 verses). The first part of the article analyzes the syllable count (length) of lamentations. “Long&8j1; 14-and 13-syllable lines are typical for recruitment and wedding lamentations (80% and 85%, respectively), and 13-and 12-syllable ones – for funeral lamentations (more than 82%). “Short&8j1; lines (8-, 9-, 10…
Notes on the language of Northern Russian lamentations. 2. Composite nominations, their structure and semantics
The paper is devoted to the language of the Northern Russian lamentations collected and published by E.V. Barsov 150 years ago. The author uses the material of wedding lamentations to study the typical folklore language — composite nominations, i.e. nouns, verbs, and other parts of speech formed on the basis of two (rarely three) lexical units: 1) integral compound words (svet-batiushka, drug-podruzhka, zvon-unylyj), 2) phrases with an applicatio…
To the Etymology of the Name Vladimir
Amongst other ancient Slavic pre-Christian two-part anthroponyms, the name Vladimir (*Voldimirъ) has been a recurrent subject of etymological analysis. However, some aspects of its etymology remain unclear. The article discusses four main issues: 1) the morphology of the first member of the name (is it a noun or a verb stem?); 2) the meaning of the second element of the name (-mirъ as ‘pax’ or ‘mundus’?); 3) the correlation between Old Russian na…
Names of Trees in East Slavic Charms
The paper deals with the Proto-Slavic two-part personal names reconstructed in the Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages (EDSL), vols. 1–42. Indo-European by their origin, these names retained their use among all Slavs even after the adoption of Christianity and the assimilation of the Christian name set. The author examines the set of lexical units that occur in two-part proto-Slavic anthroponyms, the rules of their design (pure basis, tru…
Christianity and Slavic Folk Culture
In Slavic folk culture, Christianity is a foreign, borrowed cultural model, while the oral tradition is native and familiar. The different areas of folk culture were influenced to varying degrees by the Christian tradition. The most dependent area of Slavic folk culture on Christianity was the calendar. In many cases, it only superficially accepted the Christian content of calendar elements and reinterpreted it in accordance with the traditional …
Mutabilities of the Verb byt’ ‘to be’ in the Language of Olonets Lamentations
The article examines the forms of the verb byt’ ‘to be’ in the language of Olonets lamentations, which in their meanings and functions differ from the standard uses of the all-Russian (literary and dialect) language. The forms of the present (e, est’ ‘is’, net, netu ‘is not’), past (by, bylo ‘was’) and future (budu/budet ‘will be’) and their derivatives appear in various constructions (in combination with personal verb forms, participle, infiniti…
Forum 58
Linguistic anthropology taken as a union of linguistics and anthropology in the study of language and culture was established more than a century ago. In recent decades, one can observe signs both of its gradual integration into the Western anthropological project, and of a its certain esotericization and marginalization. In Russian academia, a stricter division of labor is normal: ethnographers deal with culture, philologists and linguists deal …
The Living and the Dead in Slavic Folk Culture
Slavic folk culture is a fusion of Christian and of pre-Christian, pagan beliefs based on magic. This article is devoted specifically to ancient pre-Christian ideas about death and posthumous existence and the associated magical rituals and prohibitions, which persist to our time. It considers the following interactions between the living and the dead: 1. the measures taken and prohibitions observed by the living to ensure their well-being in the…
Materials for a Comparative Dictionary of Slavic Languages
С 2024 г. в Институте славяноведения ведется работа над сравнительным идеографическим словарем славянских языков, включающим базовую лексику всех славянских языков и некоторых соседних с ними и взаимодействующих с ними языков – литовского, греческого, румынского, венгерского, албанского. Этот словарь представляет собой расширенную применительно к славянским языкам версию известного «Словаря избранных инодоевропейских синонимов» Карла Бака, изданн…
Linguistics (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (8 works) · Slavic languages (8 works) · History (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication (6 works) · Literature (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (4 works)