Scribes as Agents of Language Change
1st Edition
Published on 22. March 2013
VIII, 328 pages
978-1-61451-054-3 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Boston
United States
Publishing group
De Gruyter
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
Num. figs. and tabs., 33 s/w Tabellen
33 b/w tbl.Num. figs. and tabs.
File size
1,75 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-61451-054-3 (9781614510543)
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Esther-Miriam Wagner | Ben Outhwaite | Bettina Beinhoff
Scribes as Agents of Language Change
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Esther-Miriam Wagner | Ben Outhwaite | Bettina Beinhoff
Scribes as Agents of Language Change
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03/2013
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Persons
Esther-Miriam Wagner, Cambridge University, UK; Ben Outhwaite, Cambridge University, UK; Bettina Beinhoff, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
Content
1 - Acknowledgements [Seite 5]
2 - Part I: Introduction [Seite 9]
2.1 - 1 Scribes and Language Change [Seite 11]
3 - Part II: From spoken vernacular to written form [Seite 27]
3.1 - 2 Biblical Register and a Counsel of Despair: two Late Cornish versions of Genesis 1 [Seite 29]
3.2 - 3 Medieval Glossators as Agents of Language Change [Seite 47]
3.3 - 4 How scribes wrote Ibero-Romance before written Romance was invented [Seite 79]
3.4 - 5 Hittite scribal habits: Sumerograms and phonetic complements in Hittite cuneiform [Seite 93]
4 - Part III: Standardisation versus regionalisation and de-standardisation [Seite 105]
4.1 - 6 Words of kings and counsellors: register variation and language change in early English courtly correspondence [Seite 107]
4.2 - 7 Quantifying gender change in Medieval English [Seite 129]
4.3 - 8 Identity and intelligibility in Late Middle English scribal transmission: local dialect as an active choice in fifteenth-century texts [Seite 167]
4.4 - 9 Lines of communication: Medieval Hebrew letters of the eleventh century [Seite 191]
4.5 - 10 The historical development of early Arabic documentary formulae [Seite 207]
4.6 - 11 Individualism in "Osco-Greek" orthography [Seite 225]
4.7 - 12 How a Jewish scribe in early modern Poland attempted to alter a Hebrew linguistic register [Seite 235]
5 - Part IV: Idiosyncracy, scribal standards and registers [Seite 247]
5.1 - 13 Writing, reading, language change - a sociohistorical perspective on scribes, readers, and networks in medieval Britain [Seite 249]
5.2 - 14 Challenges of multiglossia: scribes and the emergence of substandard Judaeo-Arabic registers [Seite 269]
5.3 - 15 Variation in a Norwegian sixteenth-century scribal community [Seite 285]
5.4 - 16 Language change induced by written codes: a case of Old Kanembu and Kanuri dialects [Seite 299]
6 - Index [Seite 333]
2 - Part I: Introduction [Seite 9]
2.1 - 1 Scribes and Language Change [Seite 11]
3 - Part II: From spoken vernacular to written form [Seite 27]
3.1 - 2 Biblical Register and a Counsel of Despair: two Late Cornish versions of Genesis 1 [Seite 29]
3.2 - 3 Medieval Glossators as Agents of Language Change [Seite 47]
3.3 - 4 How scribes wrote Ibero-Romance before written Romance was invented [Seite 79]
3.4 - 5 Hittite scribal habits: Sumerograms and phonetic complements in Hittite cuneiform [Seite 93]
4 - Part III: Standardisation versus regionalisation and de-standardisation [Seite 105]
4.1 - 6 Words of kings and counsellors: register variation and language change in early English courtly correspondence [Seite 107]
4.2 - 7 Quantifying gender change in Medieval English [Seite 129]
4.3 - 8 Identity and intelligibility in Late Middle English scribal transmission: local dialect as an active choice in fifteenth-century texts [Seite 167]
4.4 - 9 Lines of communication: Medieval Hebrew letters of the eleventh century [Seite 191]
4.5 - 10 The historical development of early Arabic documentary formulae [Seite 207]
4.6 - 11 Individualism in "Osco-Greek" orthography [Seite 225]
4.7 - 12 How a Jewish scribe in early modern Poland attempted to alter a Hebrew linguistic register [Seite 235]
5 - Part IV: Idiosyncracy, scribal standards and registers [Seite 247]
5.1 - 13 Writing, reading, language change - a sociohistorical perspective on scribes, readers, and networks in medieval Britain [Seite 249]
5.2 - 14 Challenges of multiglossia: scribes and the emergence of substandard Judaeo-Arabic registers [Seite 269]
5.3 - 15 Variation in a Norwegian sixteenth-century scribal community [Seite 285]
5.4 - 16 Language change induced by written codes: a case of Old Kanembu and Kanuri dialects [Seite 299]
6 - Index [Seite 333]
