Scribes as Agents of Language Change /

Scribes as Agents of Language Change / / ed. by Esther-Miriam Wagner, Ben Outhwaite, Bettina Beinhoff.

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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, re...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Beinhoff, Bettina,
Berg, Ivar,
Bergs, Alexander,
Bondarev, Dmitry,
Busse, Anja,
Dolberg, Florian,
Khan, Geoffrey,
Nevalainen, Terttu,
Outhwaite, Ben,
Reif, Stefan,
Schiegg, Markus,
Stenroos, Merja,
Wagner, Esther-Miriam,
Williams, Mark A.,
Wright, Roger,
Zair, Nicholas,
HerausgeberIn:
Beinhoff, Bettina,
Outhwaite, Ben,
Wagner, Esther-Miriam ,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Studies in Language Change [SLC] , 10
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; Num. figs. and tabs.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • 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 English
  • 8 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 Britain
  • 14 Challenges of multiglossia: scribes and the emergence of substandard Judaeo- Arabic registers
  • 15 Variation in a Norwegian sixteenthcentury scribal community
  • 16 Language change induced by written codes: a case of Old Kanembu and Kanuri dialects
  • Index

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