Orthographic Systems in Thirteen Editions of the «Kalender of Shepherdes» (1506–1656)
©2013
Monographs
299 Pages
Series:
Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature, Volume 35
Summary
This corpus-based study examines the orthographic systems in thirteen editions of the Kalender of Shepherdes (1506–1656), a comprehensive compendium of prose and verse texts of different length and on a variety of subjects, for example, astronomy, agriculture, medicine, and religion. It focuses on the variation and consistency levels in the early-modern printers’ spelling practice, and evaluates the potential importance of extra-linguistic motivation for the identified regularising changes from the language authorities of the time, including lexicographers, spelling reformers, orthoepists, grammarians, and schoolmasters. Additionally, the book provides the reader with a brief overview of the printers’ punctuation, capitalisation, and word-division conventions, as well as with selected bibliographical and textual information concerning the publication history of the Kalender of Shepherdes.
Details
- Pages
- 299
- Publication Year
- 2013
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783653020243
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631626245
- DOI
- 10.3726/978-3-653-02024-3
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2013 (September)
- Keywords
- level of homography Morphological spelling Corpus linguistics Vowel length indication
- Published
- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2013. 299 pp., 50 b/w fig., 65 tables
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