From Quantitative-Typological Observations on the Vocabulary of Slavic Languages [The Proto-Slavic Heritage]

The corpus of 7,557 words from Etimologicheskiy slovar' slavyanskikh yazykov. Praslavyanskiy leksicheskiy fond ([An Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages. The Proto-Slavic Lexical Word-Stock], Trubachev, O. N. [Ed], Moscow, 1974-1988) is quantitatively analyzed on a computer & results are tabulated to illustrate the preservation of Proto-Slavic lexemes in contemporary daughter languages of Slavic. Further computations explore the relationships between individual Slavic languages & geographic groups (East, West, & South Slavic languages) & identify the languages that best preserved the Proto-Slavic heritage. 3 Tables, 20 References. Z. Dubiel