Free Variation and Other Myths: Interpreting Historical English Spelling (Critical Essay)
Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies 2002, Mid-Summer, 38
-
- 25,00 kr
-
- 25,00 kr
Publisher Description
ABSTRACT The paper considers the interpretation of orthographic variation in Middle English texts, focussing on the question to what extent it is justifiable to use such variation as phonological evidence. It is suggested that all written variation, except when directly conditioned by orthographic context, is the result of clashes between two or more linguistic systems. This hypothesis is tried out on a text with notoriously variable spelling: the version of Lazamon's Brut found in London, British Library Cotton Caligula A ix.
GENRE
Professional & Technical
RELEASED
2002
6 August
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
40
Pages
PUBLISHER
Adam Mickiewicz University
SIZE
252.5
KB
More Books by Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
In-Phrases from a Semantic Perspective. Evidence from the York Cycle (1) (LINGUISTICS)
2006
The Advice Genre (1400-1599). Genre and Text Type Conventions (Report)
2009
The Lexicon in Dickens (Book Review)
2004
No Less Than Four Notes on Less (Linguistics)
2004
The Black Bird of Edgar Allan Poe and Wallace Stevens' Thirteen Blackbirds (Literature) (Critical Essay)
2003
Form in Learning Foreign Lexis (Linguistics)
2003