Scribes as agents of language change /
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| Meeting name: | Scribes as Agents of Language Change (Conference) (2011 : University of Cambridge) |
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| Imprint: | Boston ; Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, c2013. |
| Description: | viii, 328 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in language change, 2163-0992 ; v. 10 Studies in language change ; v. 10. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9143804 |
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
- 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
- Index
