Innovation in Tradition : Tönnies Fonne's Russian-German Phrasebook (Pskov, 1607).

Innovation in Tradition : Tönnies Fonne's Russian-German Phrasebook (Pskov, 1607).

This study explores the history of the language of a manuscript known as Tönnies Fonne's Russian-German phrasebook (Pskov, 1607). The phrasebook is not, as many scholars have assumed, the result of the efforts of a 19-year-old German merchant, who came to Russia to learn the language and who r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hendriks, Pepijn
Format: eBook
Language:English
German
Published: Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2014.
Series:Studies in Slavic and general linguistics ; Volume 41.
Subjects:
Fenne, Tönnies, > active 1607-1609. > Low German manual of spoken Russian, Pskov, 1607.
1300-1700
Russian language > 1300-1700 > Textbooks for foreign speakers > Low German.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > German.
Russian language
Textbooks > for Low German speakers
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Legend and editorial remarks; 0. Preface; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Codicological context; 1.1.1 Contents; 1.1.2 Text edition; 1.1.3 Dating the manuscript; 1.1.4 Pages and gatherings; 1.2 Historical context; 1.2.1 The Hanseatic League and Northwest Russia; 1.2.2 Tönnies Fonne: the person; 1.2.3 ""Tönnies F[o]nne"": the name; 1.3 Philological context; 1.3.1 Phrasebooks as a genre; 1.3.2 Initial assessment of Fonne's phrasebook; 1.3.3 Two older phrasebooks; 1.4 Linguistic context.
  • 1.4.1 The language of Pskov1.4.2 The language of Fonne's phrasebook; 1.5 Research context: state of the field; 1.5.1 Linguistic research; 1.5.2 Philological research; 1.6 Conclusions; 2. The scribe and his work; 2.1 Number of scribes; 2.2 Scribal habits; 2.3 INTRO; 2.4 Conclusions; 3. The phrasebook as a copy; 3.1 Origin of the material; 3.1.1 S and A; 3.1.2 Stemma; 3.2 Low German and High German; 3.3 Composition; 3.3.1 Arrangement of sections; 3.4 Textual correspondences; 3.3.2 Arrangement of introductory statements; 3.3.3 Content and arrangement of LEX.
  • 6.2.3 PRON. PERS. 1SG/2SG. and PRON. REFL. INSTR. SG. 6.2.4 PRON. PERS. 3SG/3PL.: epenthetic [n] in oblique cases; 6.3 PRON. REFL. svoj (use); 6.4 The NOM. SG. M. ending -e; 6.4.1 S and F compared; 6.4.2 Removal as innovation; 6.4.3 Removal strategies; 6.4.4 Linguistic consequences; 6.5 Nominative objects and acc. Sg. F. forms in -a; 6.6 Exploring nominal morphology: tovar; 6.6.1 Introduction; 6.6.2 Replacing za with na; 6.6.3 GEN. SG. tovaru and its expansion; 6.6.4 ACC. SG. tovaru; 6.6.5 LOC. SG.; 6.6.6 Evaluation; 6.7 Conclusions; 7. Verbal forms; 7.1 IND. PRES. 3SG/3PL.-t; 7.2 Pluperfect.

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