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Emily K. Davis-Hale – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Tikal, notably conservative in culture among its peer polities, maintains that tendency in the case of monumental texts. In this dissertation I draw on a corpus of Late Classic monuments (ca. AD 600-900) to argue, through analysis of morphological forms, that scribal tradition at Tikal was not only conservative but intentionally so. Literacy…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Literacy, Language Attitudes, Language Variation
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Rutkowska, Hanna – International Journal of English Studies, 2020
This study aims at contributing to the discussion on the role of the early printers in the regularisation and standardisation of the English spelling. It assesses the degree of early printers' (in)consistency concerning morphological spelling, in particular the spelling of third person singular present tense (indicative) inflectional endings of…
Descriptors: Spelling, Books, Morphology (Languages), Standards