Thesaurus der slowenischen Volkssprache in Kärnten. Band 2: C: dn by Stanislaus Hafner;Erich PrunčReview by: Gerald StoneThe Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 67, No. 1 (Jan., 1989), p. 111Published by: the Modern Humanities Research Association and University College London, School ofSlavonic and East European StudiesStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4209893 .

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Hafner, Stanislaus and Prunc, Erich. Thesaurus der slowenischen Volkssprache in Karnten. Band 2: C - dn. Verlag der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna, I 987. I 72 pp. Maps. OS 490.oo: DM 70.00.

IN southern Austria, north of the Carnic Alps and the Karavanke mountains, there are to this day some 40,000 Slovenes. They are one of the few indigenous Slavonic populations which even after the Second World War were left stranded as a minority within a non-Slavonic state. In the past they were much more numerous than they are today, but in 1920, in a plebiscite held in an area where about seventy per cent of the inhabitants spoke Slovene, nearly sixty per cent of the votes were cast for union with Austria. Today, despite guarantees for the protection of the minority in the Austrian State Treaty of I955, the position of the Carinthian Slovenes is still problematic.

The Slovene dialects of Carinthia are of particular interest. They are, on the one hand, the repositories of curious archaic features, such as the prefix vy- or the clusters -dl- and -tl-, remnants of a time before the south and west Slavonic languages were split in two. On the other hand, they manifest to a special degree the results of centuries of German-Slovene linguistic symbiosis. Unfortunately, the oddity of these dialects has been exploited by the anti-Slovene faction for their own purposes. The idea of a pro-German ethnos speaking a Slavonic language known as Windisch has emerged.

The first volume of this thesaurus appeared in I 982. It was accompanied by a separate Schlissel zum "Thesaurus", explaining the aims, methods, and scope of the work. It is intended to be a comprehensive concordance of all the Carinthian Slovene words contained in published dialect texts and studies, as well as in a number of unpublished dissertations. The decision to include the latter is especially commendable. The list of sources contains ninety-five studies and seven lexicographical works. There is an interesting historical perspective, resulting from the decision to include such early sources as the correspondence of Janez Nepomuk Primic (I 785-I823) and the study of U. Jarnik 'Obraz slovenskoga narecja u Koruskoj', published in Kolo in I842.

The importance of the thesaurus as a tool for the study of Slovene dialectology is obvious. Not only the research team led by Hafner and Prunc, but also the Austrian Academy of Sciences, as publishers, deserve praise. The quality of their work is beyond reproach. Not so its speed. Hertford College GERALD STONE Oxford

L'Hermitte, Rene. Science et perversion ideologique. Marr, Marrisme, Marristes: une page de l'histoire de la linguistique sovietique. Cultures et Societes de l'Est, No.8. Institut d'etudes slaves, Paris, I987. I03 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

IN the year of the seventieth anniversary of the Russian Revolution it is intriguing and salutary to be reminded of the origins and tentacles of a linguistic movement which ought to have been hardly more than a spoof but which in the hands of two determined Georgians (though Marr, it must be admitted, was only half Georgian since his father was a Scotsman) became a

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