Pages: 375-397 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp255375397

The article proposes to change the approach to searching for the moment of the end of the Proto-Slavic language. And to use as a starting point precisely the state of the common communicative space — considering as the primary task of analysis the establishment of the moment in time (and the historical and archaeological context) in which the disintegration of this common communicative space occurred. The author also shows that in the retrospective search for the original locus of the emergence of the Slavs and the Proto-Slavic language, we must inevitably go beyond the borders of Eastern Europe. Based on the results of the analysis, it can be argued that in the formation of the Proto-Slavic linguistic community from the very beginning it is necessary to see a significant role of convergent processes — just as, much later, these processes played a key role in the formation of the three branches of modern Slavic languages.

Keywords: Slavs, Proto-Slavic language, linguogenesis, ethnogenesis, communicative space, archaeology, linguistics

Information about author:

Aleksey Romanchuk (Kishinev, Moldova). PhD in Theory and history of culture. Institute of Cultural Heritage of Academy of Sciences of Moldova. Stefan cel Mare Bd., 1, Kishinev, MD-2001, Moldova
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-2021-7958