"The Tale of Igor's Campaign": A Linguist's View
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"The Tale of Igor's Campaign": A Linguist's View
14.99 €
For two hundred years, the debate has been ongoing about whether The Tale of Igor's Campaign is a genuine Old Russian work or a clever forgery of antiquity created in the 18th century. Both sides have invested a lot of passion in this debate, and various non-scientific elements are often introduced into it, so that in many cases it is not easy to separate the scientific arguments from the emotional ones.
The destruction of the only copy of this work deprives researchers of the opportunity to analyze the handwriting, paper, ink and other material characteristics of the original source. In such circumstances, the most solid basis for resolving the problem of the authenticity or forgery of The Tale of Igor's Campaign turns out to be the language of this monument. This book by the outstanding linguist Andrei Anatolyevich Zaliznyak (1935–2017) is devoted to the study of the linguistic side of this problem.
The book is intended both for philology specialists and for a wide range of readers interested in The Tale of Igor's Campaign and its origin.
The destruction of the only copy of this work deprives researchers of the opportunity to analyze the handwriting, paper, ink and other material characteristics of the original source. In such circumstances, the most solid basis for resolving the problem of the authenticity or forgery of The Tale of Igor's Campaign turns out to be the language of this monument. This book by the outstanding linguist Andrei Anatolyevich Zaliznyak (1935–2017) is devoted to the study of the linguistic side of this problem.
The book is intended both for philology specialists and for a wide range of readers interested in The Tale of Igor's Campaign and its origin.
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