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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hendriks, Pepijn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, 2014.
Colección:Studies in Slavic and general linguistics ; Volume 41.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (808 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9789401210751
9401210756
9789042038301
9042038306