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- Advances in Historical Orthography, c. 1500–1800
- Advances in Historical Orthography, c. 1500–1800
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 From the Early Modern Era to an International Research Area
- 2 A Phonological–Graphemic Approach to the Investigation of Spelling Functionality, with Reference to Early Modern Polish
- 3 Graphematic Features in Glagolitic and Cyrillic Orthographies
- 4 The Emergence of Sentence-internal Capitalisation in Early New High German
- 5 Punctuation in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century French and Spanish Grammars
- 6 Orthographic Variation and Materiality of a Manuscript Pre-standard Lithuanian Spellings in Simonas Daukantas’s ‘History of the Lithuanian Lowlands’ (1831–4)
- 7 Investigating Methods Intra-textual, Inter-textual and Cross-textual Variable Analyses
- 8 Orthography and Group Identity A Comparative Approach to Studying Orthographic Systems in Early Modern Czech Printed and Handwritten Texts (c. 1560‒1710)
- 9 Orthographic Solutions at the Onset of Early Modern Croatian
- 10 Women’s Spelling in Early Modern English
- 11 Towards a Relativity of Spelling Change
- 12 Synergic Dialogue in Historical Orthography National Philologies, Comparability and Questions for the Future
- Bibliography
- Index
11 - Towards a Relativity of Spelling Change
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 November 2020
- Advances in Historical Orthography, c. 1500–1800
- Advances in Historical Orthography, c. 1500–1800
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 From the Early Modern Era to an International Research Area
- 2 A Phonological–Graphemic Approach to the Investigation of Spelling Functionality, with Reference to Early Modern Polish
- 3 Graphematic Features in Glagolitic and Cyrillic Orthographies
- 4 The Emergence of Sentence-internal Capitalisation in Early New High German
- 5 Punctuation in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century French and Spanish Grammars
- 6 Orthographic Variation and Materiality of a Manuscript Pre-standard Lithuanian Spellings in Simonas Daukantas’s ‘History of the Lithuanian Lowlands’ (1831–4)
- 7 Investigating Methods Intra-textual, Inter-textual and Cross-textual Variable Analyses
- 8 Orthography and Group Identity A Comparative Approach to Studying Orthographic Systems in Early Modern Czech Printed and Handwritten Texts (c. 1560‒1710)
- 9 Orthographic Solutions at the Onset of Early Modern Croatian
- 10 Women’s Spelling in Early Modern English
- 11 Towards a Relativity of Spelling Change
- 12 Synergic Dialogue in Historical Orthography National Philologies, Comparability and Questions for the Future
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter introduces a rationale for a new model of analysis of spelling variation from a long-diachronic perspective, which promises to provide new insights into some of the core processes underlying spelling developments between 1500 and 1750. The author departs from an assessment of some of the conceptual problems existing in traditional approaches to studying spelling variation quantitatively, and illustrates how these limitations may have a profound effect on our perception of the process of change and development in spelling. The results discussed in the chapter are pivotal for an assessment of the extent to which new methodologies can be used comparatively across corpora and variant pairs.
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- Advances in Historical Orthography, c. 1500–1800 , pp. 219 - 237Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020