ON THE QUESTION OF THE CHRONOLOGICAL STRATIFICATION OF “SLAVIC LINGUISTIC ATLAS” MATERIAL

The article deals with the problem of chronological interpretation of the material represented on the “Common Slavic Linguistic Atlas” maps. The author thinks that the iso-glosses of the Slavic lexical cognates are projected into different times. To resolve the problem of the material chronological interpretation we should use a complex approach applying linguistic and spatial criteria. In the author’s opinion, linguistic geography gives the key to the problem with its methods of mapping and remapping and the method of isoglosses and their retrospective analysis.