Linguistic Features of Scribal Spacing.

Cyrus, Virginia J.

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Publication Date: 1971

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Linguistic Features of Scribal Spacing

Cyrus, Virginia J.

Visible Language, 5, 2, 101-10, Spr 71

Relates the variations in scribal spacings found in hand-produced Old English manuscripts to linguistic features of the text, including the syntactic structures as identified by immediate constituent analysis. (VJ)

Descriptors: Componential Analysis, Diachronic Linguistics, Graphemes, Handwriting Skills, Language Typology, Manuscript Writing (Handlettering), Morphemes, Old English, Sentence Structure, Suprasegmentals

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