Middle English punctuation has been neglected as the object of scholarly research until late in the twentieth century owing to its lack of standardization and seeming arbitrariness. However, this view has been recently revised with the publication of specific studies dealing with the punctuation system used by ME scribes. In this line, our investigation deals with the marks of punctuation found in a late ME astrological treatise with the following objectives: a) to obtain a complete catalogue of the uses and functions of punctuation symbols found; b) to discern whether these symbols are used rhetorically or grammatically; and c) to offer a proposal for their modernization. For this purpose, MS Cambridge L1.4.14 (n. 3) has been used as source of evidence.
La punteggiatura nel Medio Inglese è un tema che ha ricevuto scarsa attenzione accademica fino alla fine del Novecento, a causa della sua apparente arbitrarietà e mancanza di sistematicità. Tuttavia, quest’idea è stata recentemente messa in discussione da diversi studi specifici; in questo contesto, la mia analisi si concentra sulla punteggiatura utilizzata in un trattato astrologico del tardo Medio Inglese con l’obiettivo di: a) fornire un catalogo completo degli usi e delle funzioni dei diversi simboli osservati; b) discutere se questi simboli abbiano funzione retorica o grammaticale; c) formulare ipotesi circa la loro possibile controparte moderna. Per questo studio il testo preso in considerazione è il manoscritto Cambridge L1.4.14 (n. 3).
(2006). Punctuation in a fifteenth-century Scientific Treatise (MS Cambridge L1.4.14) [journal article - articolo]. In LINGUISTICA E FILOLOGIA. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10446/132
Punctuation in a fifteenth-century Scientific Treatise (MS Cambridge L1.4.14)
2006-01-01
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Middle English punctuation has been neglected as the object of scholarly research until late in the twentieth century owing to its lack of standardization and seeming arbitrariness. However, this view has been recently revised with the publication of specific studies dealing with the punctuation system used by ME scribes. In this line, our investigation deals with the marks of punctuation found in a late ME astrological treatise with the following objectives: a) to obtain a complete catalogue of the uses and functions of punctuation symbols found; b) to discern whether these symbols are used rhetorically or grammatically; and c) to offer a proposal for their modernization. For this purpose, MS Cambridge L1.4.14 (n. 3) has been used as source of evidence.File | Dimensione del file | Formato | |
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