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THE BRIEF RISE AND FALL OF A SUPERSCRIPT ABBREVIATION FOR THE FIRST PERSON SINGULAR PRONOUN IN THE WEST MIDLANDS BETWEEN 1250 AND 1500
- Author(s):
- Alpo Seppo Santeri Honkapohja (see profile)
- Date:
- 2019
- Subject(s):
- Historical linguistics, Manuscripts, Antiquities, Philology, English language--Middle English
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Abbreviations, Manuscript studies, Material philology, Middle English
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/183a-2a26
- Abstract:
- This paper examines the strictly regional distribution in a handful of West Midlands counties of the first person singular pronoun, which contracts the spelling into a superscript variant . The data comes from the Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English (LAEME) and the Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English (LAEME).
- Metadata:
- xml
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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