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Title: Orthographic Systems In Thirteen Editions of the Kalender of Shepherdes (1506–1656)
Author : Hanna Rutkowska
Release Date : January 10, 2013
Genre: Foreign Languages,Books,Reference,
Pages : * pages
Size : 5869 KB

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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. It focuses on the variation and consistency levels in the early-modern printers' spelling practice, and evaluates the potential importance of extra-linguistic motivation for the identified regularising changes from the language authorities of the time, including lexicographers, spelling reformers, orthoepists, grammarians, and schoolmasters. Additionally, the book provides the reader with a brief overview of the printers' punctuation, capitalisation, and word-division conventions, as well as with selected bibliographical and textual information concerning the publication history of the ‘Kalender of Shepherdes’.