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Scribes as agents of language change / hrsg. von Ether-Miriam Wagner ...

Englisch

Berlin : de Gruyter, 2013

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Druckausg.: Wagner, Esther-Miriam *1975-*: Scribes as agents of language change. - Berlin [u.a.] : de Gruyter Mouton, 2013. - VIII, 328 S.

978-1-61451-050-5

978-1-61451-054-3

DOI: 10.1515/9781614510543

Acknowledgements; Part I: Introduction; 1 Scribes and Language Change; Part II: From spoken vernacular to written form; 2 Biblical Register and a Counsel of Despair: two Late Cornish versions of Genesis 1; 3 Medieval Glossators as Agents of Language Change; 4 How scribes wrote Ibero-Romance before written Romance was invented; 5 Hittite scribal habits: Sumerograms and phonetic complements in Hittite cuneiform; Part III: Standardisation versus regionalisation and de-standardisation; 6 Words of kings and counsellors: register variation and language change in early English courtly correspondence

7 Quantifying gender change in Medieval English8 Identity and intelligibility in Late Middle English scribal transmission: local dialect as an active choice in fifteenth-century texts; 9 Lines of communication: Medieval Hebrew letters of the eleventh century; 10 The historical development of early Arabic documentary formulae; 11 Individualism in "Osco-Greek" orthography; 12 How a Jewish scribe in early modern Poland attempted to alter a Hebrew linguistic register; Part IV: Idiosyncracy, scribal standards and registers

13 Writing, reading, language change - a sociohistorical perspective on scribes, readers, and networks in medieval Britain14 Challenges of multiglossia: scribes and the emergence of substandard Judaeo-Arabic registers; 15 Variation in a Norwegian sixteenth-century scribal community; 16 Language change induced by written codes: a case of Old Kanembu and Kanuri dialects; Index

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Klassifikation der Library of Congress: P142

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 417.7;

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: ES 425: E Allgemeine und vergleichende Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft. Indogermanistik. Außereuropäische Sprachen und Literaturen / ES Spezialbereiche der allgemeinen Sprachwissenschaft / ES 400-ES 570 Historische und vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft / ES 410-ES 425 Sprachgeschichte / Sprachentwicklung, Sprachwandel, Sprachstufen, Absterben von Sprachen

bisacsh: LAN009000

Warengruppen-Systematik des VLB: 9560

Warengruppen-Systematik des VLB: 9560

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

 

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2013

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