TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beinhoff,Bettina
AU  - Berg,Ivar
AU  - Bergs,Alexander
AU  - Bondarev,Dmitry
AU  - Busse,Anja
AU  - Dolberg,Florian
AU  - Khan,Geoffrey
AU  - Nevalainen,Terttu
AU  - Outhwaite,Ben
AU  - Reif,Stefan
AU  - Schiegg,Markus
AU  - Stenroos,Merja
AU  - Wagner,Esther-Miriam
AU  - Williams,Mark A.
AU  - Wright,Roger
AU  - Zair,Nicholas
TI  - Scribes as Agents of Language Change
T2  - Studies in Language Change [SLC] ,
SN  - 9781614510505
U1  - 417.7 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - Sprachwandel
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Historical Linguistics
KW  - Language Variation and Change
KW  - Registers
KW  - Scribes
KW  - Sociolinguistics
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614510543
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781614510543
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781614510543/original
ER  -