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edocfu_9958353319602883
Format:
1 online resource(viii,328p.) :
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illustrations.
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Electronic reproduction. Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2013. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9781614510543
Series Statement:
Studies in Language Change [SLC]; 10
Content:
The majority of our evidence for language change in pre-modern times comes from the written output of scribes. The present volume deals with a variety of aspects of language change and focuses on the role of scribes. The individual articles, which treat different theoretical and empirical issues, reflect a broad cross-linguistic and cross-cultural diversity. The languages that are represented cover a broad spectrum, and the empirical data come from a wide range of sources. This book provides a wealth of new data and new perspectives on old problems, and it raises new questions about the actual mechanisms of language change.
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Frontmatter --
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Acknowledgements --
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Contents --
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1 Scribes and Language Change /
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2 Biblical Register and a Counsel of Despair: two Late Cornish versions of Genesis 1 /
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3 Medieval Glossators as Agents of Language Change /
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4 How scribes wrote Ibero-Romance before written Romance was invented /
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5 Hittite scribal habits: Sumerograms and phonetic complements in Hittite cuneiform /
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6 Words of kings and counsellors: register variation and language change in early English courtly correspondence /
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7 Quantifying gender change in Medieval English /
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8 Identity and intelligibility in Late Middle English scribal transmission: local dialect as an active choice in fifteenth-century texts /
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9 Lines of communication: Medieval Hebrew letters of the eleventh century /
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10 The historical development of early Arabic documentary formulae /
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11 Individualism in "Osco-Greek" orthography /
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12 How a Jewish scribe in early modern Poland attempted to alter a Hebrew linguistic register /
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13 Writing, reading, language change – a sociohistorical perspective on scribes, readers, and networks in medieval Britain /
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14 Challenges of multiglossia: scribes and the emergence of substandard Judaeo- Arabic registers /
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15 Variation in a Norwegian sixteenthcentury scribal community /
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16 Language change induced by written codes: a case of Old Kanembu and Kanuri dialects /
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Index.
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Also available in print edition.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781614510505
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781614510550
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781614510543
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614510543
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