Hapax Legomena in John Chrysostom’s Work “Of The Seraphim” from the Margarit Collectanea, Translated by Dionisii Divni

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Pages: 299-315
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54664/OENT2227

Abstract:

Object of the present research are hapax legomena in the Middle Bulgarian translation of John Chrysostom’s work Of the Seraphims. The analyzed lexemes are the smallest lexical segment in this manuscript and they are a specific parameter/indication of the Dionisii Divni’s idiosyncrasy. Hapax legomena have been compared with more than 60 Old and Middle Bulgarian texts originated in the XII – XVIII century. It examines problems associated with semantics, word formative and morphemic structure and diffusion of these lexemes in the Modern Bulgarian language.

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hapax legomenon, poetic language, composite neologisms, derivational synonyms, distribution in the Modern Bulgarian language.

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