Shape-shifting, sound-change and the genesis of prodigal writing systems Export

@article{citeulike:4123105, abstract = {In a series of articles we have looked at individual early Middle English writing systems and explored aspects of multivocal sound/symbol and symbol/sound relationships. This article combines previous observations with new material, and provides insights into the genesis of these relations and how they may interconnect. Since many early Middle English texts survive as copies, not originals, they may give clues to the orthographic systems of their exemplars too.We investigate the of Litteral and Potestatic Substitution Sets. Writing systems may be economical or prodigal. The economical system would map into a broad phonetic or a phonemic transcription: that is, one , one symbol. In early Middle English there is no one standard written norm, so there is potentially less restraint on diversity than in standard systems. Further extensibility is built into the system. We show that much of what tends to be dismissed as rather represents writing praxis no longer familiar to us \&\#8211; flexible matrices of substitution and variation.}, author = {Laing, Margaret and Roger, L. A. S. S.}, citeulike-article-id = {4123105}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=4325692}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1360674308002840}, doi = {10.1017/S1360674308002840}, journal = {English Language and Linguistics}, keywords = {middle\_english, orthography, writing}, number = {01}, pages = {1--31}, posted-at = {2009-03-03 10:55:46}, priority = {0}, title = {Shape-shifting, sound-change and the genesis of prodigal writing systems}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1360674308002840}, volume = {13}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4123105 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4123105 N2 - In a series of articles we have looked at individual early Middle English writing systems and explored aspects of multivocal sound/symbol and symbol/sound relationships. This article combines previous observations with new material, and provides insights into the genesis of these relations and how they may interconnect. Since many early Middle English texts survive as copies, not originals, they may give clues to the orthographic systems of their exemplars too.We investigate the of Litteral and Potestatic Substitution Sets. Writing systems may be economical or prodigal. The economical system would map into a broad phonetic or a phonemic transcription: that is, one , one symbol. In early Middle English there is no one standard written norm, so there is potentially less restraint on diversity than in standard systems. Further extensibility is built into the system. We show that much of what tends to be dismissed as rather represents writing praxis no longer familiar to us – flexible matrices of substitution and variation. IS - 01 JF - English Language and Linguistics EP - 31 TI - Shape-shifting, sound-change and the genesis of prodigal writing systems VL - 13 SP - 1 KW - middle_english KW - orthography KW - writing AU - Laing, Margaret AU - Roger, LASS PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1360674308002840 ER -