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Slavistic

Slavistic adjective: of or relating to Slavistics.

Adjective

Slavistic (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to Slavistics.
    • In 1926 a linguistic society was founded in Prague under the name of the “Prague Linguistic Circle”. It was founded by a generation of people full of enthusiasm for what were then the most modern trends in linguistics: the ideas of De Saussure (see above §§ 248-260), Baudouin de Courtenay (see...1965, Milka Ivić, translated by Muriel Heppell, Trends in Linguistics, Mouton & Co., →LCCN, page 141
    • Karadžić’s “linguistic” Serbianism was not based on any new theory of his own but followed the erroneous teachings of the earliest Slavistic scholars, beginning with the German historian August L. von Schlözer (1735–1809).1984, Ivo Banac, The National Question in Yugoslavia: Origins, History, Politics, Cornell University Press, published 2015, →ISBN

Questions about Slavistic

What does Slavistic mean?
Slavistic means of or relating to Slavistics.
What part of speech is Slavistic?
Slavistic is an adjective.

Words near Slavistic in the dictionary

  1. slavishness
  2. slavishnesses
  3. Slavism
  4. Slavisms
  5. Slavist
  6. Slavistic
  7. Slavistics
  8. Slavists
  9. Slavitt
  10. slavization
  11. Slavize

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