Tracing Patterns of Intra-Speaker Variation in Early English Correspondence: A Change from Above in the Paston Letters
The aim of this paper is to explore the impact of social and context factors on the diffusion of a linguistic change from above, namely the deployment of the spelling innovation <th> in fifteenth-century English, and especially in some letters from the well-known Paston collection of correspon...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2019-12-01
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| Series: | Studia Anglica Posnaniensia |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/stap-2019-0014 |