Twelfth-Century Rise Of Spelling Reforms: The Ormulum And The First Grammatical Treatise

Maria Volkonskaya ()
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Abstract: The twelfth-century renaissance was a new stage in European intellectual life. This paper examines the works of two distinguished medieval phonologists and spelling reformers of the time, namely Orm’s Ormulum and the so-called First Grammatical Treatise, which mark a significant step in medieval grammatical theory and show a number of similarities in the intellectual background, governing principles, and sources of their orthography.

Keywords: Ormulum; First Grammatical Treatise; Middle English; Icelandic; spelling reforms. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2014
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Published in WP BRP Series: Literary Studies / LS, October 2014, pages 1-16

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