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Innovation in Tradition : Tonnies Fonne’s Russian-German Phrasebook (Pskov, 1607)

Part of the Studies in Slavic and General Linguistics series
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This study explores the history of the language of Tönnies Fonne’s Russian-German phrasebook 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.

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Product Details
Editions Rodopi B.V.
9042038306 / 9789042038301
Hardback
01/01/2014
Netherlands
312 pages
155 x 235 mm, 612 grams