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1 online resource (808 pages) |
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Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics ; Volume 41 |
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Studies in Slavic and general linguistics ; Volume 41.
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| Contents |
880-01 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 |
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880-01/(Q 5.5.1 Four examples of regularisation5.5.2 Etymology: solnce and bog; 5.5.3 -věs- and -věѕть-; 5.5.4 ešče; 5.5.5 g and ch; 5.5.6 Hushing sounds, again; 5.6 Phonological and phonetic phenomena; 5.6.1 Prothetic vowels; 5.6.2 Pskov kl and gl (/'o/; 5.6.7 /'a/> /'e/; 5.7 Conclusions; 6. Nominal and pronominal forms; 6.1 -ogo vs.-ovo (GEN. SG. M/N. of adjectives and pronouns); 6.2 Personal and reflexive pronouns (forms); 6.2.1 PRON. PERS. 1SG. NOM: ja and jaz; 6.2.2 PRON. PERS./REFL. GEN/ACC and DAT/LOC |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 recorded the everyday vernacular in the town of Pskov from the mouths of his informants. Nor is it, as other claim, a mere compilation by him of existing material. Instead, the phrasebook must be regarded as the product of a copying, innovative, meticulous, German-speaking professional scribe who was acutel |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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In English and German |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Fenne, Tönnies, active 1607-1609. Low German manual of spoken Russian, Pskov, 1607.
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Russian language -- 1300-1700 -- Textbooks for foreign speakers -- Low German
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FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- German.
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Russian language
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Textbooks
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789401210751 |
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9401210756 |
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9789042038301 |
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9042038306 |
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