Innovation in Tradition
Subtitle: Tönnies Fonne's Russian-German Phrasebook (Pskov, 1607)
Series: Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics -- Volume 41; Studies in Slavic and general linguistics -- Volume 41.
Publisher: Editions Rodopi
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 808
ISBN-13: 9789401210751; 9789042038301
Subjects: Russian language; Textbooks for foreign speakers; Low German; German language; Conversation and phrase books; Language and languages; English; FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY; German
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

In English and German.
Table of contents: title: 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.; title: 880-01; title: 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.; title: 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.