ISBN:
9781614510505
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (VIII, 328 S.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Year of publication:
2013
Series Statement:
Studies in language change 10
Series Statement:
Studies in language change
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Scribes as agents of language change
DDC:
417.7
Keywords:
Electronic books
;
Sprachwandel
;
Kopist
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1515/9781614510543
