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With a focus on empirical methods, this book traces the development of European orthographies in the early modern period.
List of contents
1. From the early modern era to an international research area Marco Condorelli; 2. A phonological-graphemic approach to the investigation of spelling functionality, with reference to early modern Polish Tomasz Lisowski; 3. Graphematic features in Glagolitic and Cyrillic orthographies: a contribution to the typological model of biscriptality Per Ambrosiani; 4. The emergence of sentence-internal capitalisation in Early New High German: towards a multifactorial quantitative account Lisa Dücker, Stefan Hartmann and Renata Szczepaniak; 5. French and Spanish punctuation in the sixteenth-seventeenth century grammars: a model of diachronic and comparative graphematics Elena Llamas-Pombo; 6. Orthographical variation and materiality of a manuscript: prestandard Lithuanian spellings in Simonas Daukantas's History of the Lithuanian Lowlands (1831-1834) Giedrius Subaèius; 7. Investigating methods: intra-textual, inter-textual and cross-textual variable analyses Anja Voeste; 8. Orthography and group identity: a comparative approach to studying orthographical systems in early modern Czech printed and handwritten texts (c.1560-1710) Alena A. Fidlerová; 9. Orthographical solutions at the onset of early modern Croatian: an application of the grapholinguistic method Mateo Žagar; 10. Women's spelling in early modern English: perspectives from new media Melanie Evans and Caroline Tagg; 11. Towards a relativity of spelling change Marco Condorelli; 12. Synergic dialogue in historical orthography: national philologies, comparability and questions for the future Marco Condorelli and Anja Voeste..
About the author
Marco Condorelli, University of Central Lancashire, Preston.
Summary
Introducing a range of empirical approaches, this book traces the development of historical orthographies across a number of European languages. It will be of interest to historical linguists, students of Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages, and those interested in language documentation and description, and lexicography.
