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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO QUANTITY IN CZECH: A DIALECTAL AND HISTORICAL ANALYSIS A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE DIVISION OF THE HUMANITIES IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES & DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS BY MARK JEROME PISARO CHICAGO, ILLINOIS JUNE 2002 UMI Number: 3048356 ________________________________________________________ UMI Microform 3048356 Copyright 2002 by ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights reserved. This microform edition is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States Code. ____________________________________________________________ ProQuest Information and Learning Company 300 North Zeeb Road PO Box 1346 Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346 Copyright © 2002 by Mark Pisaro All rights reserved For Michaela Let no one be surprised if, in speaking of entirely new principalities as I shall do, I adduce the highest examples both of prince and of state; because men, walking almost always in paths beaten by others, and following by imitation their deeds, are yet unable to keep entirely to the ways of others or attain to the power of those they imitate. A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savour of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach. — Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince v TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Maps................................................................................................................. viii List of Tables .................................................................................................................. x List of Symbols............................................................................................................. xii Abbreviations .............................................................................................................. xiii Cyrillic Transcription ................................................................................................ xviii Introduction .................................................................................................................... 1 Notes on Major Sources ................................................................................................. 5 Dialectological material from the Czech Academy of Sciences. ......................... 5 Dialect Regions .............................................................................................................. 7 Major Czech Dialectal Divisions ................................................................ 7 Dialects of Chodsko (chodský úsek) .................................................................... 8 Archive material for the Staročeský Slovník ........................................................ 9 Chapter 1 -- Historical Background............................................................................. 11 Beginnings ......................................................................................................... 11 Czech Literary Language (CLC)........................................................................ 20 Chapter 2 -- Synchronic Quantity ................................................................................ 26 Phonetics ............................................................................................................ 26 Morphology..................................