Screen LibraryScribes as agents of language change /
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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De Gruyter Mouton,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2013] ©2013 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Studies in language change [slc];
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| Summary: |
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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1 online resource(viii,328pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| Bibliography: | Num. figs. and tabs. |
| ISBN: | 9781614510543 |
| Index Number: | P142 |
| CLC: | H0 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Scribes and Language Change / 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 / 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 / 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. |