Sorbischer Sprachatlas, Band II. Viehwirtschaftliche Terminologie by H. Fasske; H. Jentsch; S.MichalkReview by: Gerald StoneThe Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 47, No. 109 (Jul., 1969), pp. 534-535Published by: the Modern Humanities Research Association and University College London, School ofSlavonic and East European StudiesStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4206114 .

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vary a nepravil'nostey v russkoy razgovornoy rechi, 2nd ed., Warsaw, 1909; D. E. Rozental', Kui'tura rechi, Moscow, 1959; S. F. Levchenko, Slovar'

sobstvennykh imyon lyudey, Kiev, 1961, 3rd ed., 1967; A. Strichek, Rukovodstvo

po russkomu udareniyu, Paris, 1966; M. V. Panov, Russkaya fonetika, Moscow,

1967; F. L. Ageyenko and M. V. Zarva, Slovar' udareniy dlya rabotnikov radio i televideniya, 2nd ed., Moscow, 1967; V. V. Kolesov, 'Razvitiye slovesnogo udareniya v sovremennom russkom proiznoshenii', N. A.

Meshchersky (ed.), Razvitiye russkogo yazyka posle velikoy oktyabr'skoy sotsialisticheskoy revolyutsii, Leningrad, 1967, pp. 96-118; R. I. Avanesov, Russkoye literaturnoye proiznosheniye, 4th ed., Moscow, 1968; A.V. Superan- skaya, Udareniye v zaimstvovannykh slovakh v sovremennom russkom yazyke, Moscow, 1968; and P. Garde, 'Les proprietes accentuelles des morphemes dans les langues slaves', VI6 Congres International des Slavistes, Prague, 1968. Communications de la delegation frangaise et de la delegation suisse, Paris, 1968, PP- 29-37-

Professor Nicholson must be warmly congratulated on his admirable book. Future workers in this field would be wise to digest it thoroughly. London C. L. Drage

Fasske, H., Jentsch, H. & Michalk, S. Sorbischer Sprachatlas, Band II.

Viehwirtschaftliche Terminologie. Institut fur sorbische Volksforschung der deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften. VEB Domowina-

Verlag, Bautzen, 1968. 312 pages. Maps.

This second volume of the Sorbian dialect atlas deals with stock-farming terminology and has been prepared in accordance with the same principles as Volume I (agricultural terminology), with which, of course, it is closely linked thematically. The foreword contains more precise information than could be given in the first volume as to the form the entire series will

eventually assume. The collection of material was completed in March

1966 and half of it has already been provisionally compiled for publica? tion. There are to be fourteen volumes in all, the first ten containing approximately 1200 maps recording lexically differentiated features. The

remaining four volumes will deal with phonology and morphology. The value of each individual volume, considered in isolation, is natu?

rally restricted. It is only when the entire series is at our disposal that we shall be able to draw the most important conclusions. In the meantime, however, each new volume tends to complement and to be complemented by its predecessors. The isogloss groupings shown in the ten combinative

maps in volume I, for example, are largely confirmed by similar groupings revealed in volume II. One new feature emerges, however, consisting of an echelon of isoglosses in the Heath area, most of which are concen? trated into a bundle in the west, dividing the Kulow/Wittichenau dialect from the Catholic dialect. A considerably smaller number of isoglosses from the Heath echelon is concentrated into a bundle to the north of the

Kulow/Wittichenau dialect, thereby marking it off from the dialect of

Wojerecy/Hoyerswerda. In volume I the number of isoglosses coinciding in the Heath area was so small as to be insignificant. Taken together with

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those produced by the examination of stock-farming terminology, however, they make an impressive display, and the authors have, most

felicitously, seen fit to include in the present volume, on the maps por? traying the Heath echelon, the relevant isoglosses from volume I.

The evidence adduced in both volumes I and II relevant to the dialect boundaries in this area has recently been interpreted with interesting results by Michalk in a historical study of the Kulow/Wittichenau dialect

(cf. S. Michalk, 'Kulowski dialekt dzensa a pfed 300 letami', in Sorabistiske

pfinoski k VI. mjezynarodnemu kongresej slawistow w Praze, 1968, Bautzen,

1968, pp. 37-64). The force of his arguments is naturally best appreciated when taken together with the graphic representation of the isoglosses concerned on maps 128 and 129 of the present volume. The significance of recent work in this area is underlined by the fact that Muka did not even regard the Kulow/Wittichenau dialect as a separate entity (cf. Karl Ernst Mucke, Historische und vergleichende Laut- und Formenlehre der nieder- sorbischen (niederlausitzisch-wendischen) Sprache, Leipzig, 1891, pp. 5-6).

The corroborative as well as the amplificatory nature of the data pub? lished in the Atlas should, however, not be overlooked. The individuality of the Slepo/Schleife-Muzakow/Muskau group of dialects, for example, was well-known even before it was defined in L. V. Shcherba's Vostoch-

noluzhitskoye narechiye (Petrograd, 1915), and A. Schroeder's Die Laute des wendischen (sorbischen) Dialekts von Schleife in der Oberlausitz (Tubingen, 1958). This individuality is confirmed by the strong concentration of

isoglosses isolating these from adjacent dialects on maps included in both

published volumes of the Atlas. The most striking isogloss bundles are to be found running roughly

east to west across the transitional zone, and there can be little doubt that this kind of evidence, especially when complete, will be of great value in further consideration of the question of the genetic relationship of Upper and Lower Sorbian. In fact, the projected scope of this work is such that reference to it is likely to become standard practice in the discussion of

many, perhaps not only Sorbian, linguistic problems. Nottingham Gerald Stone

Durski, Stefan. Dramatopisarstwo Ludwika Adama Dmuszewskiego: Teatr

polski w drodze od klasycyzmu do romantyzmu. Studia z okresu oswiecenia, vol IX. Instytut Badaii Literackich, P.A.N., Wroclaw, 1968. 317 pages. Bibliography. Index. Plates.

L A. Dmuszewski (1777-1847) is a name of only casual familiarity to the student of Polish literature. The popularity of his stage pieces, so high at the beginning of the last century, has for long been in total eclipse. The two main reasons for this demand little research: the disrepute of the

pseudo-classical literary tradition and the mediocre literary value of the work itself, which ably sustained the popular theatrical repertoire of the day on a palatable diet of comedy and comic pieces (some 144 in all), often unpretentiously borrowed from the contemporary French and Italian

comedy theatre. Dmuszewski's popularity and therewith his success, boldly

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