The taking off and catching on of etymological spellings in Early Modern English Evidence from the EEBO Corpus

Ryuichi Hotta, Yoko Iyeiri

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This chapter examines the path that orthographic etymologisation, as in doubt and verdict, followed mainly in the course of the sixteenth century. Few corpus-based studies have been undertaken on etymological spellings, but the recent availability of the large-sized EEBO Corpus must be of great help in making it clear when and how etymological spellings took off and caught on in the Early Modern English period. Besides giving a close description of the process of the orthographic shift, we discuss some methodological problems in the use of the corpus, stressing at the same time that it is an excellent tool, when carefully used, for studies in the history of English.

本文言語English
ホスト出版物のタイトルENGLISH HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS HISTORICAL ENGLISH IN CONTACT PAPERS FROM THE XXTH ICEHL
編集者Bettelou Los, Chris Cummins, Lisa Gotthard, Alpo Honkapohja, Benjamin Molineaux
出版社John Benjamins Publishing Company
ページ143-163
ページ数21
ISBN(電子版)9789027258199
DOI
出版ステータスPublished - 2022

出版物シリーズ

名前Current Issues in Linguistic Theory
359
ISSN(印刷版)0304-0763

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 言語学および言語
  • 言語および言語学

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