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Linguistic Variation in the Ancrene Wisse, Katherine Group and Wooing Group
Essays Celebrating the Completion of the Parallel Text Edition

English · Hardback

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Among thirteenth-century English devotional writings, the «Ancrene Wisse», the Katherine Group and the Wooing Group are central to debate about a putative standardised English, the AB Language. This book consists of articles investigating the manuscripts, textual transmission, punctuation, spelling, grammar and vocabulary of the «Ancrene Wisse» Group. All the contributors use data taken from the parallel manuscript editions published by the Tokyo Manuscript Reading Group. The articles exemplify ways of using such parallel-text editions for linguistic and literary analysis. They present new findings on lexical and morphological divergences, which taken together cast light on scribal variation in texts transmitted in manuscript.

About the author










Harumi Tanabe is Professor in the Department of English and American Literature at Seikei University in Tokyo (Japan).


Koichi Kano is Associate Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural Studies at Koeki University in Sakata (Japan).



John Scahill teaches at Insearch, University of Technology Sydney (Australia).



All three researchers have edited diplomatic parallel manuscript texts of the Ancrene Wisse Group and published studies of this group of texts and other areas of Old, Middle and Modern English.


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Assisted by Koichi Kano (Editor), Scahill John (Editor), Harumi Tanabe (Editor)
Publisher Peter Lang
 
Content Book
Product form Hardback
Publication date 30.06.2018
Subject Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies
 
EAN 9783631747858
ISBN 978-3-631-74785-8
Pages 202
Illustrations 19 Abb.
Dimensions (packing) 15 x 21.6 x 1.9 cm
Weight (packing) 374 g
 
Series Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature > .52
Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature > 52
 

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