How Many People in the Making of Sloane 770? A Corpus-Based Approach

10 pages•Published: November 28, 2016

Abstract

During the transcription of a late Middle English manuscript on Medicine (London, British Library, MS Sloane 770), a series of orthographic variations appeared, several of which seemed to be arranged following a predictable pattern. Should this prove correct, it may be a clue to posit the existence of two or more scribes who were involved in the copying of the codex, or else of the dialect of the MS being an example of Mischsprache that combines the dialects of the exemplar MS and that of the scribe. To ascertain whether the MS was written by more than one copyist or whether it is an example of the coexistence of two different dialects, a morphologically lemmatized corpus was built. This paper will present the results obtained after studying that corpus in order to verify either the original hypothesis is linguistically and scientifically based or not.

Keyphrases: dialectology, historical linguistics, late middle english, mischsprache, ms sloane 770, orthographic variation

In: Antonio Moreno Ortiz and Chantal Pérez-Hernández (editors). CILC2016. 8th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics, vol 1, pages 25-34.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/XDM
	https://doi.org/10.29007/ts6d

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{CILC2016:How_Many_People_Making,
  author    = {Jessica Carmona-Cejudo},
  title     = {How Many People in the Making of Sloane 770? A Corpus-Based Approach},
  booktitle = {CILC2016. 8th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics},
  editor    = {Antonio Moreno Ortiz and Chantal Pérez-Hernández},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Language and Linguistics},
  volume    = {1},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2398-5283},
  url       = {/publications/paper/XDM},
  doi       = {10.29007/ts6d},
  pages     = {25-34},
  year      = {2016}}

Download PDF Open PDF in browser