ABSTRACT

Early Modern English is regarded as the key period in the establishment of the written standard of the language. The present study contributes to the discussion on the standardisation processes of the English spelling in the period. It assesses the level of orthographic standardisation of London, Wellcome Library, MS 3009 (ff. 17 r–90 r), a 17th-century recipe book. The orthographic variables considered fall into four criteria: complementary distribution of graphemes, vowel length, word separation and hyphenation and line-final word division. For the purpose, a semi-diplomatic transcription of MS Wellcome 3009 has been carried out, which allows for both a quantitative and a qualitative approach to the study of orthographic standardisation of the text under consideration.

摘要

早期现代英语被认为是语言书面标准建立的关键时期。本研究有助于讨论这一时期英语拼写的标准化过程。它评估了伦敦的正字法标准化水平，Wellcome 图书馆，MS 3009（ff. 17 r–90 r），一本 17 世纪的食谱书。所考虑的正字法变量分为四个标准：字素的互补分布、元音长度、单词分隔和连字符以及行末单词划分。为此，对 MS Wellcome 3009 进行了半外交转录，这允许采用定量和定性方法来研究正在考虑的文本的正字法标准化。