The multilingual origins of standard English
Textbooks inform readers that the precursor of Standard English was supposedly an East or Central Midlands variety which became adopted in London; that monolingual fifteenth century English manuscripts fall into internally-cohesive Types; and that the fourth Type, dating after 1435 and labelled Chan...
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| Язык: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2020]
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| Серии: | Topics in English linguistics ;
v. 107. |
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Оглавление:
- Introduction / Laura Wright
- 1. A critical look at previous accounts of the standardisation of English / Laura Wright
- 2. The 'vernacularisation' and 'standardisation' of local administrative writing in late and post-medieval England / Merja Stenroos
- 3. The linguistic character of manuscripts attributed to the Beryn Scribe : A comparative study / Maria Jose Carillo-Linares, Keith Williamson
- 4. Spelling practices in late Middle English medical prose : A quantitative analysis / David Moreno Olalla
- 5. Standardisation, exemplars, and the Auchinleck manuscript / Jacob Theisen
- 6. Bristol <th>, <þ> and <y> : The North-South divide revisited, 1400-1700 / Moragh Gordon
- 7. <th> versus <þ> : Latin-based influences and social awareness in the Paston letters / Juan M. Hernandez-Campoy
- 8. Early mass communication as a standardizing influence? The case of the Book of Common Prayer / Terttu Nevalainen
- 9. Abbreviations and standardisation in the Polychronicon : Latin to English and manuscript to print / Alpo Honkapohja, Aino Liira
- 10. William Worcester's Itineraria : mixed-language notes of a medieval traveller / Herbert Schendl
- 11. The relationship of borrowing from French and Latin in the Middle English period with the development of the lexicon of Standard English : Some observations and a lot of questions / Philip Durkin
- 12. The role of multilingualism in the emergence of a technical register in the Middle English period / Louise Sylvester
- 13. More sugar and spice : Revisiting medieval Italian influence on the mercantile lexis of England / Megan Tiddeman
- 14. -mannus makyth man(n)? Latin as an indirect source for English lexical history / Richard Ashdowne
- 15. Communities of practice, proto-standardisation and spelling focusing in the Stonor letters / J. Camilo Conde-Silvestre
- 16. A comparison of some French and English nominal suffixes in early English correspondence (1420-1681) / Jesus Romero-Barranco
- 17. Textual standardisation of legal Scots vis a vis Latin / Joanna Kopaczyk
- 18. Rising living standards, the demise of Anglo-Norman and mixed-language writing, and standard English / Laura Wright.