The Genre of “Memoir of a Map” in Linguistic Geography of the 18th Century

Authors

  • Денис Иванович Петренко Ставропольский государственный педагогический институт
  • Клара Эрновна Штайн Северо-Кавказский федеральный университет

Abstract

Denis I. Petrenko, Klara E. Shtein (Stavropol`, Russian Federation)

The paper is devoted to the rare genre of «memoir of a map» widespread in Great Britain in the 18th century. The authors analyze the little-known George Ellis’s book «Memoir of a Map of the Countries Comprehended Between the Black Sea and the Caspian; with an Account of the Caucasian Nations, and Vocabularies of Their Languages» which precedes researches on comparative-historical linguistics and linguistic geography. George Ellis’s book is especially interesting to those who learn languages, history and culture of the Caucasian people. The book contains «specimen of Caucasian languages» representing a basic lexical fund (lexical kernel) of seven Caucasian languages and their dialects: Abkhazian, Circassian, Ossetian, Ingush, Lezghin, Georgian. The book is introduced in scientific use in the field of comparative-historical linguistics and Caucasus studies for the first time.

Key words: memoir of a map, linguistic research of culture, linguistic research of geography.

DOI 10.23683/1995-0640-2017-3-113-120

Author Biographies

Денис Иванович Петренко, Ставропольский государственный педагогический институт

Denis I. Petrenko, Stavropol State Pedagogical Institute, historical and philological faculty, professor of department of the theory and methodology of teaching historical and philological disciplines; Doctor of Philology.

Клара Эрновна Штайн, Северо-Кавказский федеральный университет

Klara E. Shtain, North Caucasian Federal University, Humanitarian Institute, professor of department of russian language; Doctor of Philology, professor, Honoured worker of the higher school of the Russian Federation.

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Ellis G. Memoir of a Map of the Countries Comprehended Between the Black Sea and the Caspian; with an Account of the Caucasian Nations, and Vocabularies of Their Languages. London: Printed for J. Edwards, in PallMall. M.DCC.LXXX.VIII (1788). 80 p.

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Published

2017-09-30

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Петренко, Д. И., & Штайн, К. Э. (2017). The Genre of “Memoir of a Map” in Linguistic Geography of the 18th Century. Proceedings of Southern Federal University. Philology, (3), 113–120. Retrieved from https://philol-journal.sfedu.ru/index.php/sfuphilol/article/view/1005

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No. 3 (2017)

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LINGUISTICS

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