mo"re, v oziralnih veznikih (*kako ž(e) > sln. SLOVENE: Prispevek obravnava spremembo ž > r ("rotacizem") v južnoslovanskih jezikih, kot se najde npr. Word length worked better than division into lexical and function words. High token counts of frequent lexical items had a major effect on the results. The results reveal that abbreviation was overwhelmingly more consistent in Latin than in the Middle English and somewhat more consistent in recipes. The alignment process is based on computer–human collaboration and custom-built alignment tool which uses sections tagged in the TEI XML file and word division. Variables A–D are compared using a parallel corpus of automatically aligned rich TEI P5 XML-tagged transcriptions of six manuscript witnesses to the JB treatise. We examine how the following variables affect the consistency of abbreviating across manuscript witnesses: A language: Latin versus English B text type: recipes versus running text C word type: lexical versus function words and D: the number of characters in a word. Focusing on different versions of the treatise enables us to maximize textual and lexical overlap, comparing differences caused by text type, word type, and language. This study examines the consistency of medieval abbreviation practices in a parallel corpus consisting of Latin and Middle English copies of a plague treatise attributed to John of Burgundy (JB). In order to do so, we shall analyse the abbreviations extracted from a corpus of medical manuscripts and bring to light their relevance as far as English historical dialectology is concerned. Thus, this article aims to demonstrate how the way in which a palaeographer transcribes specific abbreviations has an impact on the establishment of the dialectal provenance of a Middle English manuscript. However, it is crucial to expand abbreviations coherently to carry out further analysis from a historical linguistic perspective.
Editorial practice should avoid intervention, as it may detract from the originality and the text distinct and stylistic features. As a result, their reasonably standard Latin system lost consistency. English medieval manuscripts contain a great variety of abbreviations which were transferred from Latin and applied to the vernacular. Understanding the large number of abbreviations present in any medieval manuscript is one of the essential skills required by any knowledgeable palaeographer.
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