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5. Standardisation, exemplars, and the Auchinleck manuscript 5. 标准化，范例，和奥金莱克手稿

The Multilingual Origins of Standard English Pub Date : 2020-09-07 DOI: 10.1515/9783110687545-006

Jacob Thaisen

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13. More sugar and spice: Revisiting medieval Italian influence on the mercantile lexis of England 13. 更多的糖和香料:重温中世纪意大利对英格兰商业词汇的影响

The Multilingual Origins of Standard English Pub Date : 2020-09-07 DOI: 10.1515/9783110687545-014

M. Tiddeman

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15. Communities of practice, proto-standardisation and spelling focusing in the Stonor letters 15. 实践社区，标准化原型和拼写集中在斯通字母

The Multilingual Origins of Standard English Pub Date : 2020-09-07 DOI: 10.1515/9783110687545-016

J. C. Conde-Silvestre

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2. The ‘vernacularisation’ and ‘standardisation’ of local administrative writing in late and post-medieval England 2. 中世纪晚期及后英格兰地方行政文书的“白话化”与“标准化”

The Multilingual Origins of Standard English Pub Date : 2020-09-07 DOI: 10.1515/9783110687545-003

Merja Stenroos

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16. A comparison of some French and English nominal suffixes in early English correspondence (1420–1681) 16. 早期英语书信中一些法语和英语名义后缀的比较(1420-1681)

The Multilingual Origins of Standard English Pub Date : 2020-09-07 DOI: 10.1515/9783110687545-017

Jesús Romero-Barranco

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3. The linguistic character of manuscripts attributed to the Beryn Scribe: A comparative study 3.贝林抄写员手稿的语言特征:比较研究

The Multilingual Origins of Standard English Pub Date : 2020-09-07 DOI: 10.1515/9783110687545-004

María José Carrillo-Linares, Keith Williamson

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9. Abbreviations and standardisation in the Polychronicon: Latin to English and manuscript to print 9. 《多年表》中的缩略语和标准化:拉丁语到英语和手稿印刷

The Multilingual Origins of Standard English Pub Date : 2020-09-07 DOI: 10.1515/9783110687545-010

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11. The relationship of borrowing from French and Latin in the Middle English period with the development of the lexicon of Standard English: Some observations and a lot of questions 11. 中古英语借用法语和拉丁语与标准英语词汇发展的关系:一些观察和许多问题

The Multilingual Origins of Standard English Pub Date : 2020-09-07 DOI: 10.1515/9783110687545-012

P. Durkin

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10. William Worcester’s Itineraria: mixed-language notes of a medieval traveller 10. 威廉·伍斯特的旅行记:中世纪旅行者的混合语言笔记

The Multilingual Origins of Standard English Pub Date : 2020-09-07 DOI: 10.1515/9783110687545-011

Herbert Schendl

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17. Textual standardisation of legal Scots vis a vis Latin 17. 苏格兰法律相对于拉丁语的文本标准化

The Multilingual Origins of Standard English Pub Date : 2020-09-07 DOI: 10.1515/9783110687545-018

J. Kopaczyk

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