Linguistic variation in the Ancrene Wisse, Katherine Group and Wooing Group : essays celebrating the completion of the parallel text edition / Harumi Tanabe, Koichi Kano, John Scahill (eds.).

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English
Published/​Created
  • Berlin : Peter Lang, [2018]
  • ©2018
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196 pages ; 22 cm.

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    Summary note
    This collection of articles deals with the manuscripts, textual transmission, punctuation, spelling, grammar and vocabulary of the Ancrene Wisse, the Katherine Group and the Wooing Group. A close comparison based on parallel texts substantiates detailed findings about linguistic variation and the role of scribes.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references.
    Contents
    • Abbreviations
    • Parallel editions and concordances
    • Select symbols and conventions used in parallel editions
    • Introduction / ... Tadao Kubouchi, Harumi Tanabe, Koichi Kano and John Scahill
    • Manuscripts and textual transmission
    • Reconsideration of the textual transmission of seinte iuliene in London, British library, MS Royal 17A. xxvii / Koichi Kano
    • Scribe versus scribe : the variant texts of the wooing group / John Scahill
    • Orthography
    • Spacing in three manuscript texts of Sawles Warde : its synchronic, historical and theoretical implications / Ryuichi Hotta
    • Is the language of the Katherine group, MS Royal 17 A. xxvii, "(A)B language" or not? / Keiko Ikegami
    • Vocabulary
    • "Destinctiun", "Chapitres", "Boc", "Dale", and "Stuche" in Ancrene Wisse / Roger Dahood
    • Old Norse and French loanwords in AB language : revisited / Shoko Ono and Koichi Kano
    • Lexical variation in the four major manuscripts of Ancrene Wisse : with special reference to the nero manuscript / Akinobu Tani
    • Morphology and grammar
    • 'Modernity and archaism in the Ancrene Wisse' revisited / ...Tadao Kubouchi (trans. Koichi Kano)
    • Prefix variation and phrasal verbs in Ancrene Wisse manuscripts / Harumi Tanabe
    • Index of Ancrene Wisse group manuscripts.
    ISBN
    • 3631747853
    • 9783631747858
    OCLC
    1023766602
    International Article Number
    • 9783631747858
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