Orthographic variation and register in the corpus of Greek documentary papyri (300 BCE-800 CE)
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- Joanne Vera Stolk (UGent)
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- The corpus of Greek documentary papyri from Egypt consists of various types of documents, such as letters, contracts and accounts, showing different types of linguistic variation. The concept of register is applied here to examine the relationship between the presence of non-standard orthography and the situational context according to the situational variables setting, participants, genre and production circumstances. Quantitative study shows that the participants involved and the genre of the document are predictors for the amount of orthographic variation that is found in a document. Qualitative analysis of the documents in a number of archives reveals that there are also other important factors, such as the choice of scribe, method of production and the stage of composition of the text that is preserved to us, to explain the presence of orthographic variation in the corpus of documentary papyri.
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- Greek, Ancient Greek, Post-classical Greek, Byzantine Greek, Medieval Greek, linguistics, language variation, language change, historical linguistics, socio-historical linguistics, orthography
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8610762
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- Stolk, Joanne Vera. “Orthographic Variation and Register in the Corpus of Greek Documentary Papyri (300 BCE-800 CE).” Varieties of Post-Classical and Byzantine Greek, edited by Klaas Bentein and Mark Janse, vol. 331, De Gruyter Mouton, 2020, pp. 299–326, doi:10.1515/9783110614404-012.
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- Stolk, J. V. (2020). Orthographic variation and register in the corpus of Greek documentary papyri (300 BCE-800 CE). In K. Bentein & M. Janse (Eds.), Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek (Vol. 331, pp. 299–326). https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110614404-012
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- Stolk, Joanne Vera. 2020. “Orthographic Variation and Register in the Corpus of Greek Documentary Papyri (300 BCE-800 CE).” In Varieties of Post-Classical and Byzantine Greek, edited by Klaas Bentein and Mark Janse, 331:299–326. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110614404-012.
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- Stolk, Joanne Vera. 2020. “Orthographic Variation and Register in the Corpus of Greek Documentary Papyri (300 BCE-800 CE).” In Varieties of Post-Classical and Byzantine Greek, ed by. Klaas Bentein and Mark Janse, 331:299–326. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. doi:10.1515/9783110614404-012.
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- 1.Stolk JV. Orthographic variation and register in the corpus of Greek documentary papyri (300 BCE-800 CE). In: Bentein K, Janse M, editors. Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton; 2020. p. 299–326.
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- [1]J. V. Stolk, “Orthographic variation and register in the corpus of Greek documentary papyri (300 BCE-800 CE),” in Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek, vol. 331, K. Bentein and M. Janse, Eds. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2020, pp. 299–326.
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author = {{Stolk, Joanne Vera}},
booktitle = {{Varieties of Post-classical and Byzantine Greek}},
editor = {{Bentein, Klaas and Janse, Mark}},
isbn = {{9783110608557}},
issn = {{1861-4302}},
keywords = {{Greek,Ancient Greek,Post-classical Greek,Byzantine Greek,Medieval Greek,linguistics,language variation,language change,historical linguistics,socio-historical linguistics,orthography}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{299--326}},
publisher = {{De Gruyter Mouton}},
series = {{Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs}},
title = {{Orthographic variation and register in the corpus of Greek documentary papyri (300 BCE-800 CE)}},
url = {{http://doi.org/10.1515/9783110614404-012}},
volume = {{331}},
year = {{2020}},
}
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