6. Bristol &lt;th&gt;, &lt;þ&gt; and &lt;y&gt;: The North-South divide revisited, 1400–1700

Gordon, Moragh

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“Quhen I am begun to write I really knou not what to say”

van Eyndhoven

2024

Current Issues in Linguistic Theory

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It is currently unclear to what extent Older Scots features continued in correspondence during the early eighteenth century (Millar 2020: 100). To explore this, the digitised letters of politically-involved Scottish writers active during this time were compiled into a purpose-built corpus, and searched for the Scots feature . The focus was on three authors in particular who were selected for close-up analysis. Their correspondence was quantitatively analysed to determine the frequency of across author and word-type, which was then compared to the general dataset. Inter- and intra-writer variation was evaluated in relation to possible macrosocial influences. Results suggest that, contrary to earlier findings (Macqueen 1957; van Eyndhoven & Clark 2019), had not completely disappeared, but its persistence was largely conditioned by its use in abbreviations for highly frequent function words. The professional background of the author, however, is also shown to influence usage.

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“Quhen I am begun to write I really knou not what to say”

van Eyndhoven

2024

Current Issues in Linguistic Theory

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Gordon

2024

Studies in Germanic Linguistics

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The important role of historical cities as centers of higher literacy and text production in the standardization processes of written languages has been recognized some time ago by scholars working on different languages. The current article, which is couched in the study of urban vernaculars in the field of historical sociolinguistics, focuses on written language use in Norwich during the period 1422–1760. Within the context of the city’s socio-economic history, the article investigates two linguistic variables, notably the third person present tense forms and periphrastic DO, in the manuscript-based Corpus of Middle English Local Documents (MELD) and An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED) and compares them to findings from other urban centers. Despite the restricted data set, the study shows that the supralocalization processes and the speed of change differ from one linguistic feature to another in the different urban datasets. The Norwich data confirms previous findings of other urban datasets that the supralocalization of the morphological feature precedes that of the syntactic feature.

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Orthographic standardisation in early Modern English: London, Wellcome Library, MS 3009

Criado-Peña

2021

Studia Neophilologica

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6. Bristol <th>, <þ> and <y>: The North-South divide revisited, 1400–1700

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“Quhen I am begun to write I really knou not what to say”

“Quhen I am begun to write I really knou not what to say”

Weaving data strands together

Orthographic standardisation in early Modern English: London, Wellcome Library, MS 3009

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