Marek Majer
Biographic Data
| ID | 6772720 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marek Majer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marek |
| FAMILY NAME | Majer |
| SIGNATURE | MAJER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lodz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0885-5789 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Variant-Based Analogy
Two discontinuous areas of Slavic – viz. Slovak and Ukrainian dialects – display etymologically unexpected and synchronically isolated alternations in the root-final consonant preceding the comparative marker -š-: Slk dial. vys-ok- ‘tall’ → vyk-š- ‘taller’; Ukr dial. blyz’-k- ‘close’ → blyk-š- ‘closer’. We investigate such alternations in both languages, taking into account previously unconsidered dialectal and historical data, and propose a nove…
The Prehistory of the Proto-Slavic Abstract Suffix *- ostь and its Baltic Congeners
The study deals with the origin of the Proto-Slavic adjective abstract suffix *-ostь. Firstly, the existing proposals are systematized and evaluated. It is concluded that the most promising explanation is the one according to which the suffix *-ostь was metanalyzed from regular abstract nouns in *-ь (*zelenь -i ‘the color green’ ← *zelenъ ‘green’) built to an old class of adjectives in *-ostъ < *-osto-, not directly preserved but paralleled in ot…
Slavic *ljuby and the heterogeneity of the inflectional class in *‐y
The inherited Proto-Slavic feminine nouns in nom. sg. *‐y, oblique *‐ъvare conventionally thought to go back to one source only, namely Proto-Indo- European stems in *‐uh‐. However, a handful of previous studies have already demonstrated the possibility that other inherited items could join this paradigm by phonologically developing a nom. sg. in *‐y from other sources (particularly *‐ōs). Accordingly, in the present article, it is hypothesized t…
Pochodzenie prasłowiańskiego *čьjь ‘czyj’ / Izvor praslovanskega *čьjь ‘čigav’
Članek prinaša novo razlago izolirane praslovanske besede *čьjь ‘čigav’. Leksem se razlaga s tematično izpeljavo (na *‐o‐) iz praindoevropskega *kwi‐h1 ‘s kom/čim’ (or. ed. h *kwi‐ ‘kdo/kaj’), torej: pide. *kwi‐h1‐o ‘tak, ki je s kom/čim’ > ‘čigav’ > psl. *čьjь. Struktura izpeljanke je primerljiva z novo razlago pide. *h2ep‐i ‘v vodi’ → *h2ep‐i‐o‐ ‘tak, ki je v vodi’ > ved. ápiya‐ ‘isto’
A Note on the Balto-Slavic and Indo-European Background of the Proto-Slavic Adjective *svętъ ‘Holy’
The standard etymological explanation of the Proto-Slavic adjective *svętъ ‘holy, saint’ – a word of extreme literary, cultural and religious importance in the Slavic world – concentrates on the formal match with Lithuanian šventas ‘id.’ and Avestan spəṇta‐ ‘life-giving, holy’ (PIE *ḱwen‐to‐, from the root *ḱwen‐). This article highlights the verbal formation seen in Latvian svinêtsvin svinẽjo ‘celebrate, venerate’, generally recognized as anothe…
Lith. vedą̃ = Sl. * vedǫtь̍
The aberrant form of the nom. pl. of Balt. active participles (Lith. vedą̃ etc.) has been aptly explained (Cowgill, partly anticipated by Endzelīns) as the intrusion of the old finite 3. pl. (
The origin of the ‘l-less perfect’ in the Novgorod birchbark documents
Remarks on the "Letter of the Patriarch Theophylact to Tsar Peter" in the Context of Certain Byzantine and Slavic Anti-heretic Texts
The Letter of patriarch Theophylact to tsar Peter is the oldest, but seemingly not the most informative Greek source for the history of Bogomilism. It is in essence a standard document, a typical product of the patriarch’s chancery; it is not conceived as an in-depth investigation into the theological minutiae pertaining to the cosmogony, dogmas and social doctrines of the heretics and the orthodox Church, but rather as a practical tutorial on ho…
Some Remarks on the Anathemas in the "Palaea Historica"
The original text of the Palaea Historica, a Byzantine narration based on the initial books of the Old Testament, contains two anathema directed against the Phundagiagitae (adherents of a medieval neo-Manichaean heresy), accusing them of the belief in Cain’s being the son of Satanael and in that the union of Adam and Eve occurred in the Garden of Eden already. The analysis of the relevant passages and their counterparts in two Slavic translations…
The First Witnesses. Martha, Longinus and Veronica in the Slavic Manuscript Tradition (Initial Observations)
The epithet ‘first witnesses’, conferred on the three saints in the title, is but a conventional designation; it seems fitting as common for the figures of saints, who gave proof of their devotion to Christ. Otherwise, although they make no simultaneous appearance in any of the canonical texts, there are – interestingly – far more interconnections between the three characters in pseudo-canonical and legendary literature than could be surmised fro…
John Chrysostom’s Tale on How Michael Vanquished Satanael – a Bogomil text
The study is an attempt at a comparative analysis of two pseudo-canonical texts: the Slavic Homily of John Chrysostom on How Michael Vanquished Satanael (in two versions) and the Greek Λόγος τοῠ ἀρχηστρατήγου Μιχαήλ, ὃταν ἐπῆρεν τήν στολήν (BHG 1288n). Both texts, very close to each other in terms of the plot, relate an ancient angelomachia between a heavenly emissary and a demiurge expelled from the angelic hierarchy. When examined against the b…
Breaking down and putting back together
In this paper we fi rst briefl y describe the design of a corpus containing the Koine Greek original text of the New Testament and its translations in to Gothic, Latin, Old Church Slavic and Armenian. We then discuss extensively the annotation that we have applied in each layer of annotation: morphology and syntax, information structure, animacy, and token alignment. For each type of annotation we provide some preliminary results and applications…
Breaking down and putting back together
In this paper we fi rst briefl y describe the design of a corpus containing the Koine Greek original text of the New Testament and its translations in to Gothic, Latin, Old Church Slavic and Armenian. We then discuss extensively the annotation that we have applied in each layer of annotation: morphology and syntax, information structure, animacy, and token alignment. For each type of annotation we provide some preliminary results and applications…
Breaking down and putting back together
In this paper we fi rst briefl y describe the design of a corpus containing the Koine Greek original text of the New Testament and its translations in to Gothic, Latin, Old Church Slavic and Armenian. We then discuss extensively the annotation that we have applied in each layer of annotation: morphology and syntax, information structure, animacy, and token alignment. For each type of annotation we provide some preliminary results and applications…
The First Witnesses. Martha, Longinus and Veronica in the Slavic Manuscript Tradition (Initial Observations)
The epithet ‘first witnesses’, conferred on the three saints in the title, is but a conventional designation; it seems fitting as common for the figures of saints, who gave proof of their devotion to Christ. Otherwise, although they make no simultaneous appearance in any of the canonical texts, there are – interestingly – far more interconnections between the three characters in pseudo-canonical and legendary literature than could be surmised fro…
John Chrysostom’s Tale on How Michael Vanquished Satanael – a Bogomil text
The study is an attempt at a comparative analysis of two pseudo-canonical texts: the Slavic Homily of John Chrysostom on How Michael Vanquished Satanael (in two versions) and the Greek Λόγος τοῠ ἀρχηστρατήγου Μιχαήλ, ὃταν ἐπῆρεν τήν στολήν (BHG 1288n). Both texts, very close to each other in terms of the plot, relate an ancient angelomachia between a heavenly emissary and a demiurge expelled from the angelic hierarchy. When examined against the b…
Remarks on the "Letter of the Patriarch Theophylact to Tsar Peter" in the Context of Certain Byzantine and Slavic Anti-heretic Texts
The Letter of patriarch Theophylact to tsar Peter is the oldest, but seemingly not the most informative Greek source for the history of Bogomilism. It is in essence a standard document, a typical product of the patriarch’s chancery; it is not conceived as an in-depth investigation into the theological minutiae pertaining to the cosmogony, dogmas and social doctrines of the heretics and the orthodox Church, but rather as a practical tutorial on ho…
Some Remarks on the Anathemas in the "Palaea Historica"
The original text of the Palaea Historica, a Byzantine narration based on the initial books of the Old Testament, contains two anathema directed against the Phundagiagitae (adherents of a medieval neo-Manichaean heresy), accusing them of the belief in Cain’s being the son of Satanael and in that the union of Adam and Eve occurred in the Garden of Eden already. The analysis of the relevant passages and their counterparts in two Slavic translations…
The origin of the ‘l-less perfect’ in the Novgorod birchbark documents
A Note on the Balto-Slavic and Indo-European Background of the Proto-Slavic Adjective *svętъ ‘Holy’
The standard etymological explanation of the Proto-Slavic adjective *svętъ ‘holy, saint’ – a word of extreme literary, cultural and religious importance in the Slavic world – concentrates on the formal match with Lithuanian šventas ‘id.’ and Avestan spəṇta‐ ‘life-giving, holy’ (PIE *ḱwen‐to‐, from the root *ḱwen‐). This article highlights the verbal formation seen in Latvian svinêtsvin svinẽjo ‘celebrate, venerate’, generally recognized as anothe…
Lith. vedą̃ = Sl. * vedǫtь̍
The aberrant form of the nom. pl. of Balt. active participles (Lith. vedą̃ etc.) has been aptly explained (Cowgill, partly anticipated by Endzelīns) as the intrusion of the old finite 3. pl. (
Pochodzenie prasłowiańskiego *čьjь ‘czyj’ / Izvor praslovanskega *čьjь ‘čigav’
Članek prinaša novo razlago izolirane praslovanske besede *čьjь ‘čigav’. Leksem se razlaga s tematično izpeljavo (na *‐o‐) iz praindoevropskega *kwi‐h1 ‘s kom/čim’ (or. ed. h *kwi‐ ‘kdo/kaj’), torej: pide. *kwi‐h1‐o ‘tak, ki je s kom/čim’ > ‘čigav’ > psl. *čьjь. Struktura izpeljanke je primerljiva z novo razlago pide. *h2ep‐i ‘v vodi’ → *h2ep‐i‐o‐ ‘tak, ki je v vodi’ > ved. ápiya‐ ‘isto’
Slavic *ljuby and the heterogeneity of the inflectional class in *‐y
The inherited Proto-Slavic feminine nouns in nom. sg. *‐y, oblique *‐ъvare conventionally thought to go back to one source only, namely Proto-Indo- European stems in *‐uh‐. However, a handful of previous studies have already demonstrated the possibility that other inherited items could join this paradigm by phonologically developing a nom. sg. in *‐y from other sources (particularly *‐ōs). Accordingly, in the present article, it is hypothesized t…
The Prehistory of the Proto-Slavic Abstract Suffix *- ostь and its Baltic Congeners
The study deals with the origin of the Proto-Slavic adjective abstract suffix *-ostь. Firstly, the existing proposals are systematized and evaluated. It is concluded that the most promising explanation is the one according to which the suffix *-ostь was metanalyzed from regular abstract nouns in *-ь (*zelenь -i ‘the color green’ ← *zelenъ ‘green’) built to an old class of adjectives in *-ostъ < *-osto-, not directly preserved but paralleled in ot…
Variant-Based Analogy
Two discontinuous areas of Slavic – viz. Slovak and Ukrainian dialects – display etymologically unexpected and synchronically isolated alternations in the root-final consonant preceding the comparative marker -š-: Slk dial. vys-ok- ‘tall’ → vyk-š- ‘taller’; Ukr dial. blyz’-k- ‘close’ → blyk-š- ‘closer’. We investigate such alternations in both languages, taking into account previously unconsidered dialectal and historical data, and propose a nove…
Philosophy (11 works) · Slavic languages (10 works) · History (9 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (9 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · Theology (6 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (5 works) · Classics (4 works)