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Manuscripts as Sources for Linguistic Research: A Methodological Case Study Based on the Mirror of Lights
dc.contributor.author | Grund, Peter | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-03-25T19:33:54Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-03-25T19:33:54Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2006-06-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Grund, Peter. 2006. “Manuscripts as Sources for Linguistic Research: A Methodological Case Study Based on the Mirror of Lights.” Journal of English Linguistics 34(2): 105–125. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0075424206290255 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/13371 | |
dc.description | This is the author's accepted manuscript. The published version can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0075424206290255 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article explores the problematic issue of using editions as sources for studies of English historical morpho-syntax. It presents a methodological case study of the variation between he and it in reference to inanimate objects (such as mercury) in Mirror of Lights, an alchemical text that survives in multiple copies from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The study reveals that the manuscript versions differ greatly in how they employ he and it, underscoring that linguistic studies based on one version would provide very different results from those using another version as the source. The article argues that it is crucial that such manuscript variation is taken into consideration in morpho-syntactic studies. It suggests that an electronic edition that incorporates all copies of the text would make the full variation available to linguists, while a traditional critical edition would highlight the pattern of one version but obscure or ignore the patterns of other manuscripts. The article also discusses the more general problem of including a multiversion text such as the Mirror of Lights into a corpus and suggests some possible solutions. | |
dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | |
dc.subject | Editions | |
dc.subject | Manuscripts | |
dc.subject | Corpus compilation | |
dc.subject | Morpho-syntactic variation | |
dc.subject | He vs. it | |
dc.subject | Alchemical texts | |
dc.title | Manuscripts as Sources for Linguistic Research: A Methodological Case Study Based on the Mirror of Lights | |
dc.type | Article | |
kusw.kuauthor | Grund, Peter | |
kusw.kudepartment | English | |
kusw.oastatus | na | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/0075424206290255 | |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |
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