Scribes as Agents of Language Change

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 mechanisms of language change.

Product details

• Assisted by: Bettina Beinhoff (Editor), Ben Outhwaite (Editor), Esther-Miriam Wagner (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2013
• EAN: 9781614510505
• ISBN: 978-1-61451-050-5
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 23 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 626 g
• Illustrations: 33 b/w tbl., 3 b/w img., 20 b/w ld, Num. figs. and tabs.
• Series: Studies in Language Change [SLC]
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics