This book brings together 16 contributions from scholars from various European research centers
involved in the study of the oldest Slavic language attestations and Texts. The volume was
inspired by research done within the framework of the Documentation and Interpretation of the
Earliest Croatian project (2014-2018). Most of the papers in this volume were presented at the
conference Oldest Linguistic Attestations and Texts in the Slavic Languages held in Zagreb on
4th-5th November 2016 and organized in order to establish a dialogue between researchers
studying the oldest linguistic material of one or more Slavic languages and who are confronted
by similar questions. Bringing together researchers working on the oldest attestations of
Slavic regardless of the differences in their corpora and approaches is of great importance
as it is becoming more and more difficult to follow the steps individual Researchers are taking
in the study of the oldest period of Slavic literacy within the framework of Slavic philology
at the national level and at Slavic studies centres throughout Europe and elsewhere. The
selected works take new encouraging steps in interpreting the oldest Slavic attestations and
texts confront the same or similar methodological problems and show numerous modern approaches
to this material. Amir Kapetanovic Ph.D in Humanities (2004 University of Zagreb) senior
research scientist (full professor) at the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics in
Zagreb. He has published two critical editions and around 70 scholarly studies. He is author of
Jezik u starim versima hrvatskim (2016) and has received several Croatian awards in the field
of philology.
