Orthographic Systems in Thirteen Editions of the "Kalender of Shepherdes" (1506-1656)

This corpus-based study examines the orthographic systems in thirteen editions of the Kalender of Shepherdes (1506-1656), a comprehensive compendium of prose and verse texts of different length and on a variety of subjects, for example, astronomy, agriculture, medicine, and religion.

Auteur

Hanna Rutkowska is lecturer in the Faculty of English at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan (Poland). Her main research interests include the history of English, Late Middle English and Early Modern English graphemics and morphosyntax, corpus linguistics, and historical sociolinguistics.

Contenu

Contents: Early Modern English - Standardisation - Early printed books - Corpus linguistics - Orthography - Typography - Abbreviations - The distribution of graphemes - Vowel length indication - The reduction of homography - Morphological spelling - Etymological spelling.