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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 issu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Scribes as Agents of Language Change (Conference) University of Cambridge)
Otros Autores: Wagner, Esther-Miriam (Editor ), Outhwaite, Ben (Editor ), Beinhoff, Bettina (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston ; Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2013]
Colección:Studies in language change (De Gruyter Mouton) ; v. 10.
Temas:
Linguistic change > Congresses.
Scribes > Congresses.
Changement linguistique > Congrès.
Scribes > Congrès.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Ancient Languages.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Historical & Comparative.
Linguistic change
Scribes
Kopist
Sprachwandel
Conference papers and proceedings
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 sixteenth-century scribal community
  • 16. Language change induced by written codes: a case of Old Kanembu and Kanuri dialects.

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