Scribes as agents of language change [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Esther-Miriam Wagner, Ben Outhwaite, Bettina Beinhoff

• Pubblicazione: Boston ; ; Berlin, : De Gruyter Mouton, c2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Disciplina: 417/.7
• Soggetto topico: Linguistic change; Scribes
• Soggetto non controllato: Historical Linguistics; Language Variation and Change; Registers; Scribes; Sociolinguistics
• Classificazione: ES 425
• Altri autori: WagnerEsther-Miriam OuthwaiteBen BeinhoffBettina
• Note generali: International conference proceedings.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. I. Introduction -- pt. II. From spoken vernacular to written form -- pt. III. Standardisation versus regionalisation and de-standardisation -- pt. IV. Idiosyncracy, scribal standards and registers.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Scribes as agents of language change
• ISBN: 1-61451-054-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779869703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in language change ; ; 10.