The early Middle English scribe
Sprach er wie er schrieb?
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23155963 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret Laing (0000-0002-3684-3937, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Pages | 1-44 |
| Publication date | 2008-07-09 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | English Historical Linguistics 2006 Selected Papers From The Fourteenth International Conference On English Historical Linguistics Icehl 14 Bergamo 2125 August 2006 (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/cilt.297.03lai |
| OpenAlex | W2495497381 |
| ISBN | 9789027248121 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Written Middle English is not phonetic transcript. The sound-pattern is not directly known, but has to be reconstructed – from, among other things, written forms interpreted in the light of the particular spelling systems to which they belong. Pronunciation is an object of discovery, not a premiss: assumptions about the way (or ways) in which a written form was pronounced, ought not to be built in to the collection of the primary evidence. It does not follow that phonetic considerations are ruled out for subsequent interpretation. (Benskin 1991: 226)
Linguistics · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.07 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |