Between Innovation and Tradition
Code-Switching in the Transmission of the Commentary to the Félire Óengusso
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22135372 |
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| Authors | Nike Stam (0000-0001-8546-0468, Dublin Institute For Advanced Studies, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | medieval worlds |
| Issue | 13. 2021 |
| Pages | 120-146 |
| Publication date | 2021-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medieval Worlds (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2412-3196 • E-ISSN: 2412-3196 |
| Publisher | Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Verlag (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1553/medievalworlds_no13_2021s120 |
| OpenAlex | W3174482349 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
This article presents a case study that explores the issue of code-switching in medieval text transmission with initial data mined in a three-year project run at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. The case study is based on a bilingual corpus of glosses and notes in Irish and Latin that accompanies the ninth-century Martyrology of à engus. This collection of material is referred to as the Commentary to the Félire à engusso and is found in ten manuscripts. This provides an excellent opportunity to compare different versions of a bilingual text in order to analyse the way in which different scribes dealt with the bilingual material that they copied. In my analysis, a twofold approach to the material will be adopted: first, from the perspective of linguistics, I examine whether the grammatical characteristics of a code-switch influence its transmission. For this, I use Pieter Muyskenâ s typology of code-mixing (2000) to distinguish between complex and simple code-switches. Secondly, from the perspective of palaeography, I examine whether highly abbreviated words that could be interpreted as either Latin or Irish (visual diamorphs) may cause so-called »triggered« code-switches in transmission. The aim of the comparison is to provide a window on scribal practice in bilingual texts
Code-mixing · Code-switching · Czech · Irish · Linguistics · Ninth · Programming language · Slovak · Typology · Computer Science · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Medieval European Literature and History · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence
Studying bilinguals
Visual diamorphs
The Cambridge Dictionary of Linguistics
Prolegomena to the Study of Code-Switching in the Old Irish Glosses
Multilingual Medieval Sermons
Orality in its Written Traces
Multilingual Texts as a Reflection of Code-Switching in Medieval England
Bilingual Strategies in Fourteenth-Century Latin Sermons from Catalonia
Bilingualism in Medieval Italian Preaching
Code-switching and predictability of meaning in discourse
| Highly cited | No |
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