{"product_id":"orthographic-systems-in-thirteen-editions-of-the-kalender-of-shepherdes-1506-1656-9783631626245","title":"Orthographic Systems in Thirteen Editions of the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis corpus-based study examines the orthographic systems in thirteen editions of the \u003ci\u003eKalender of Shepherdes \u003c\/i\u003e(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 \u003ci\u003eKalender of Shepherdes\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Early Modern English – Standardisation – Early printed books – Corpus linguistics – Orthography – Typography – Abbreviations – The distribution of graphemes – Vowel length indication – The reduction of homography – Morphological spelling – Etymological spelling.","brand":"Peter Lang AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51044224500055,"sku":"9783631626245","price":52.07,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/orthographic-systems-in-thirteen-editions-of-the-kalender-of-shepherdes-1506-1656-9783631626245","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}