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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hendriks, Pepijn.

Series:

Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics 41.

Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics ; v. 41

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russian language--1300-1700--Textbooks for foreign speakers--Low German.

Russian language.

Fenne, Tönnies, active 1607-1609. Low German manual of spoken Russian, Pskov, 1607.

Fenne, Tönnies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (808 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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 acutely aware of regional, stylistic and other differences and nuances in the Russian language around him, and who wanted to deliver an up-to-date phrasebook firmly rooted in an established tradition. By careful textological analysis and by comparing the text with the earlier phrasebook of Thomas Schroue, this study lays bare the modus operandi of the scribe and shows how the scribe acted as an agent of change when a phrasebook was handed down from one generation to the other.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

LEGEND AND EDITORIAL REMARKS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

THE SCRIBE AND HIS WORK

THE PHRASEBOOK AS A COPY

EXPLORING TEXTUAL DEPTH

SPELLING AND SOUNDS

NOMINAL AND PRONOMINAL FORMS

VERBAL FORMS

RUSSIAN AND GERMAN

CONCLUSIONS

REFERENCES

TABLES OF CONTENTS (F, S, A)

CONCORDANCE (F, S, A)

LIST OF NUMBERED PHRASES FROM F.

3.3.4 Content and arrangement of PHRAS3.3.5 Conclusions; 3.4.1 F and S; 3.4.2 F and A; 3.5 Conclusions; 4. Exploring textual depth; 4.1 Isolated differences; 4.2 Language-conscious copying; 4.3 Insertion of new phrases; 4.4 Structural differences; 4.5 Conscious innovation; 5. Spelling and sounds; 5.1 The fate of w; 5.2 Two alphabets: Cyrillic and Latin; 5.2.1 Cyrillic and Latin correspondences; 5.2.2 Corresponding columns; 5.2.3 Consistency in variation; 5.2.4 љ and е, ы and u; 5.2.5 Hushing sounds; 5.3 The diacritic ̃; 5.4 The alphabet of the source; 5.5 Spelling regularisation

5.5.1 Four examples of regularisation5.5.2 Etymology: solnce and bog; 5.5.3 -věs- and -věstь-; 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 23, 2014).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789401210751

9401210756

OCLC:

879551355

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401210751 DOI