Fields of Study & Topics
Presented here is a survey of topics and themes I have dealt with from the beginning of my scholarly career. It is far from exhaustive and aimed only to help potential users of this site to find their focuses. The numbers refer to the items in the Publications list. If you are interested in seeing some of them that are not available online, please write to me.
ETYMOLOGY AND ONOMASTICS
Slavic Etymology
18, 25, 47, 50, 52, 60, 65, 81, 85, 86, 89, 90, 92, 94, 106, 107 [1], 110, 111, 112, 120, 123, 126, 128, 136, 142, 143, 144, 146, 163, 168, 172, 175, 177, 178, 184, 186, 188, 189, 193, 199, 200, 203, 204, 215, 218, 219, 221, 222, 226, 229, 230, 231, 232, 234, 235, 236, 238, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246
Word‑formation:
Compounds 47 [I], 50, 110, 120, 123, 126, 128, 143, 172, 184, 186, 188, 189, 193, 200, 215, 234, 235, 251
Verbal morphology 221, 236
Other 56, 92, 127, 148, 203, 218, 219, 226
Slavic Onomastics
Toponymy (hydronymy, oronymy ...)
5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 23, 26, 27, 30, 32, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 45, 46, 48, 56, 65, 66, 67, 69, 73, 78, 79, 83, 84, 86, 87, 88, 93, 97, 98, 99, 116, 117, 118, 119, 121, 120, 135, 139, 141, 145, 147, 149, 150, 154, 156, 158, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 174, 183, 191, 197, 203, 205, 206, 208, 212, 213, 216, 217, 225, 227, 229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 237, 239, 240, 241, 247, 248
Geographic terms 38, 45, 129, 239
Phonetic and prosodic phenomena 83, 84
Formation of names 56, 84, 205, 227
Dialectological features 9 [1], 13, 28, 32, 33, 34, 35, 39, 75, 86, 139, 141
Pre‑Slavic substrata 3, 8, 20, 27, 28, 32, 35, 36, 41, 49, 54, 55, 65, 86, 108, 116, 122, 141, 158, 168, 183, 191, 197, 206, 217, 229
Early Christian elements 15, 20, 23, 26, 32, 39, 98, 208
Adstrata: Romanian 9 [2], 20, 35, 36, 187
Albanian 27, 35, 36, 41, 122, 141, 183 = 197
Historical Geography 12, 14, 21, 44, 48, 145, 166, 170, 206, 239, 248
Anthroponymy
2, 58, 73, 145, 151, 163, 166, 182, 195, 206, 214, 225
Ethnonymy
Theonymy
Slavic Origins and Their Proto-Home:
25, 32, 33, 34, 39, 57, 75, 89, 104, 120
Relationships with the Iranians 216, 218, 219, 238
with the Balts 188, 217, 218, 220, 222
Etymology and Onomastics of Other Languages:
Greek
2, 50, 62, 80, 89, 102, 107 [2, 3], 133, 159, 176, 194, 207
Avestan, Old Persian
Scythian and Sarmatian
62, 63, 77, 85, 86, 89, 102, 106, 107, 110, 120, 130, 136, 161, 175, 194, 209, 224, 238, 250
Ossetic
Thracian
Albanian
Turkic
History of Religions, Comparative Mythology
2, 4, 16, 24, 42, 51, 62, 67, 70, 72, 74, 76, 77, 80, 88, 97, 98, 100, 101 = 134, 102, 104, 105, 118, 124, 125, 128, 133, 137, 140, 143, 160, 161, 162, 172, 173, 181, 185, 192 (=228), 194, 198, 199, 201, 202, 207, 208, 223
Topics:
Paganism and its survivals among the Southern Slavs
2, 4, 16, 24, 42, 67, 70, 74, 76, 88, 97, 98, 100, 118, 124, 125, 137, 140, 162, 172, 208
Oral epic poetry:
Slavic, Indo‑European 51, 72, 104, 173, 192 (=228), 201, 223
Epic formulas 90, 101, 126, 128, 193, 196
Early spiritual contacts between the Greeks and the Indo-Iranians
61, 62, 91, 102, 159, 179, 199, 202
Indo‑European heritage in Greek religion
Themes:
Fire
Volcanoes
Sleeping hero
Cosmic and social order
Hospitality
Ascetism & Palingenesis
80 [1]
Blood sacrifice
Hierogamy
47 [I]