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Vladimir: What's in a Name?

2000· article· en· W60826002 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueGermano-Slavica · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLinguistics and language evolution
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSlavic languagesScholarshipHistoryClassicsEtymologyCasualNothingSlavic studiesPhilosophyLinguisticsLawEpistemologyPolitical science
DOInot available

Abstract

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The personal name Vladimir in many respects functions as the quintessential Slavic name and is often cited routinely in scholarly studies. It is typical of old Slavic dithematic names and possesses an impressive etymology (often interpreted as `lord of the world', `rule the world,' etc.) Moreover, the name gained status as the result of two talented bearers: St. Vladimir, who made Christianity the state religion of Kievan Rus', and his descendent Vladimir Monomakh. Yet this name, and/or its constituent elements, has been a source of controversy, for some would argue that there is nothing `Slavic' about at all. It is this topic, the Slavic nature of Vladimir, which this article will examine in detail. In order to set the stage properly, we must first take note of the tendency of Slavic studies in the West to treat the ancient (and not so ancient) Slavs as the great synthesizers of history. That is to say, in Western scholarship the Slavs are generally viewed as devoid of any culture of their own and thus consistently borrowing from their neighbors. (1) While certain exceptions do indeed exist, one cannot help noticing this disconcerting tendency of Western scholarship. Whatever the particular field of study, almost invariably Western scholars seek the sources for a phenomenon in Slavic culture from an outside, non-Slavic source. While one could hardly argue that the ancient Slavs lived in splendid isolation, hermetically sealed from their neighbors, the acute, one-sided nature of Western analyses is readily apparent to even the casual observer. Indeed, is not too extreme to argue that Western scholarship is obsessed with reducing everything in Slavic culture to a foreign importation, with Germanic and Iranian the two favorite candidates as sources. In the field of linguistics, this obsession has been paramount. (2) Zbigniew Golab recently had to remind his readers that the idea of linguistic exchange implies the notion of reciprocity of lexical borrowing. (3) In summing up the state of scholarship into the area of Slavic-Iranian contacts, Golab states: In all the essays on the prehistorical relations (contacts) between Proto-Slavic and the North Iranian languages (Scytho-Sarmatian) so far published the point of view represented by their authors has always been one-sided: only possible Slavic borrowings from Iranian have been considered, i.e., the Proto-Slavs have been treated exclusively as the receivers in what was undoubtedly a regular reciprocal relationship. After all, the cultural levels of the Proto-Slavs and the Pontic Iranians were not so radically different as to justify only one-way influence and borrowing, from the Scythians and Sarmatians to the Slavs, but not vice versa. (4) This mindset is so prevalent among Slavists that an obvious borrowing from Slavic into Iranian like topor (ax, hatchet) is generally regarded as borrowed from Iranian into Slavic. As Golab notes, in spite of its obvious motivation in Slavic and the complete lack of motivation in Iranian, it has nevertheless been treated as one of the most certain Iranianisms in Proto-Slavic[.] (5) The situation is similar with regard to Germanic-Slavic contacts as treated by Western Slavists. In summing up the state of scholarship into the area of Germanic-Slavic linguist exchange, Golab provides us with the following picture: But in spite of this quite obvious circumstance, most scholars who have investigated the problem of Slavic-Germanic relations as reflected in the respective vocabularies for more than a hundred years (since J. Safarik's Slovanske starozitnosti, 1837), have concentrated their attention on the Germanic loanwords in Slavic, leaving the impression that the flow of linguistic influence was one-way from Germanic to Slavic. (6) In short, the Slavic lands are looked upon as a long-standing cultural vacuum waiting to be filled, with the Slavs themselves treated as a tabula rasa, to be written upon as their neighbors saw fit. …

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.958
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0310.002

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.225
Teacher spread0.213 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it