Towards regularisation: Morphological spelling in several editions of the "Kalender of Shepherdes"
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2013
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Adam Mickiewicz University
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This corpus-based study focuses on the graphemic realisations of several derivational suffixes in
thirteen editions of the Kalender of Shepherdes, an early modern almanac published between
1506 and 1656. Morphological spelling, that is, the consistent representation of particular morphemes,
is considered to be one of the most important criteria in research on the orthographic
standardisation in English. The analysis of the graphomorphemic information available in the
documents under consideration indicates that particular printing houses applied different combinations
of spelling rules with regard to the variants of suffixes and were characterised by varying
levels of consistency in the use of these graphemic representations. The new spelling variants of
the suffixes were adopted partly as the printers’ own regularisation policy, and partly under the
influence of normative writings.
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orthography, regularisation of spelling, standardisation, morphological spelling, suffixes, orthographic variation, early printers, orthoepists, spelling reformers, Early Modern English
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Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, vol. 48.1(2013), pp. 7-28
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0081-6272