Acknowledgements |
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List of abbreviations and symbols |
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Introduction |
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0.3 Research methods and the presentation of Findings |
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0.4 Organisation of the study |
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Chapter One Theoretical preliminaries: Orthography corpus linguistics |
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1.1 Approaches to language, speech and writing |
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1.2 Definition of orthography and related terms |
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1.3 Units of a writing system |
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1.4 Orthographic Principles in the English writing system |
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1.5 Variability and the Orthographic norm in Present-Day English |
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1.6 Orthographic variation as the source of evidence for histrocal linguists |
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1.6 1 Orthographic reflecting pronunciation |
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1.6.2 Evidence reflecting Characteristics of the writing systems |
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1.7 Corpus linguistics, corpus typology, and the corpus under investigation |
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1.8 Summary and conclusions |
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Chapter Two Early Modern English and standardisation of orthography: A socio-historical perspective |
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2.1 Early Modem English as a stage in the history of the English language |
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2.2 Standard and standardisation |
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2.3 The role of prescription in the process of standardisation |
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2.3.1 Spelling reformers, orthoepists, grammarians, and schoolmasters |
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2.3.2 Dictionaries and word lists |
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2.4 Summary and conclusions |
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Chapter Three The historical and textual background, and the publication history of the Kalender editions |
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3.2 Publication history of the Kalender of Shepherdes |
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3.3 The printers of the analysed editions |
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3.4 The contents of the KS: similarities and differences among editions |
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3.5 Sources of texts in the Kalender |
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3.8 Summary and conclusions |
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Chapter Four Transition between manuscript and print Bibliographical and typographical features of the Kalender editions |
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4.1 Cross-over influences between manuscript and print |
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4.3 Title pages, colophons and tables of contents |
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4.5 Signatures, running heads and catchwords |
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4.6 Punctuation and word division |
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4.8 Summary and conclusions |
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Chapter five Abbreviations of an interface between typography and orthography |
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5.1 Classification of abbreviations |
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5.2 Abbreviations of function words |
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5.3 The tilde and remaining abbreviations |
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105 | (3) |
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5.4 Abbreviations as a typographical tool of printers for line justification |
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5.5 Abbreviations in normative writings |
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5.6 Summary and conclusions |
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Chapter Six Changes affecting the distribution of selected graphemes and clusters of graphemes |
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6.1 The distribution of <u> and <v> |
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6.2 The distribution of <i>, <y>, and <j> |
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6.3 The variation between <d> and <th> |
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6.4 The replacement of <ssh> with <sh> |
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135 | (3) |
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6.5 The expansion of the digraph <dg> |
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6.6 Summary and conclusions |
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Chapter Seven Vowel length indication |
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7.1 Early Modern English /a:/ and æ:/ reflecting Middle English/a:/ |
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7.2 Early Modem English /epsilon;i/ and /u/ reflecting Middle English /i/and/u/ |
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7.3 Early Modern English /i:/ reflecting Middle English/e:/ |
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143 | (4) |
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7.4 Early Modem English /ε/ and /e:/ reflecting Middle English/epsilon;/ |
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147 | (3) |
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7.5 Early Modem English /u:/, /υ/, and /Λ reflecting Middle English /o:/ |
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7.6 Early Modern English and reflecting Middle English |
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158 | (2) |
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7.7 Summary of changes in the representation of long vowels in the Kalender editions |
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160 | (1) |
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7.8 Prescriptive influences on the printer' spelling pratices with regard to vowel length indication |
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161 | (5) |
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Chapter Eight The reduction of homography |
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170 | (3) |
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8.7 Other instances of homography |
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188 | (1) |
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8.8 Summary and conclusions |
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189 | (2) |
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Chapter Nine Morphological spelling |
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9.1 Native derivational suffixes |
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9.1.1 The nominal suffix {-NESS} |
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192 | (1) |
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9.1.2 The nominal suffix {-SHIP} |
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193 | (1) |
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9.1.3 The nominal suffix {-DOM} |
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194 | (1) |
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9.1.4 The nominal suffixes {-HOOD} and {-HEAD} |
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9.1.5 The adjectival suffix {-FUL} |
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9.1.6 The adjectival suffix {-LY}1 and the adverbial suffix {-LY}2 |
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9.2 Borrowed derivational suffixes |
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9.2.1 The nominal suffix {-ANCE} |
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9.2.2 The nominal suffix {-ITY} |
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201 | (1) |
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9.2.3 The nominal suffix {-TION} |
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202 | (4) |
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9.2.4 The nominal suffix {-OR} |
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206 | (3) |
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9.2.5 The adjectival suffix {-AL} |
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209 | (1) |
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210 | (4) |
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9.4 Summary and conclusions |
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214 | (3) |
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Chapter Ten Etymological spelling |
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217 | (1) |
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218 | (5) |
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223 | (4) |
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227 | (6) |
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233 | (1) |
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10.6 Replacement of <f> with <ph> |
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240 | (4) |
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10.7 Pseudoetymological spellings and fossilised reverse spellings |
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244 | (3) |
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10.8 Summary and conclusion |
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247 | (2) |
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249 | (6) |
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The Kalender of Shepherdes editions (in chronological order) |
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Early modern dictionaries |
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Early modern grammars, handbooks, and treatises |
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256 | (3) |
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277 | (6) |
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287 | (1) |
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Appendix 1 All known English editions of The Kalender of Shepherdes |
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Appendix 2 The foliation formulae of the analysed KS editions, and the libraries holding the copies |
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288 | (1) |
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Appendix 3 The format, number of pages, and word count of the analysed KS editions |
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289 | (1) |
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Appendix 4 The contents of the analysed editions of the Kalender of Shepherdes |
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Appendix 5 Sample passages from several editions of the Kalender of Shepherdes |
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