IMC 2021: Sessions
Session 1102: Linguistic Borderlands, II: Scripts, Semantics, and Understanding
Wednesday 7 July 2021, 11.15-12.45
| Organiser: | Roderick McDonald, Independent Scholar, Sheffield |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Seán Vrieland, Den Arnamagnæanske Samling, Københavns Universitet |
| Paper 1102-a | Linguistic Repertoires and Intra-Writer Variation: Hemming of Worcester (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Old English |
| Paper 1102-b | Determiners in Medieval English Glossary Entries (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Middle English |
| Paper 1102-c | Remedies for the Plague in Yiddish Medical Books from the Medieval to the Early Modern Period in Europe: Vernacular Paratexts across Yiddish, Dutch, and Frisian (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Other, Manuscripts and Palaeography, Medicine |
| Abstract | Scribes, and their scripts and texts encode meaning at different levels. This panel looks at the ways text, manuscript, and language function, the way meaning can be bound in an array of contextual factors, and the impact of scribes on their varied texts. Wallis explores the tension between Hemming of Worcester's own linguistic repertoire and features transmitted from his exemplars, Seiler looks at the grammaticalization of the indefinite article in Old and Middle English, and Mauer examines vernacular paratexts across Yiddish, Dutch and Frisian remedy books from the medieval to the early modern period in Europe. |