Dokument: The Purpose of Double Accenting in the Ormulum and a Possible French Connection

Titel:	The Purpose of Double Accenting in the Ormulum and a Possible French Connection
URL für Lesezeichen:	https://docserv.uni-duesseldorf.de/servlets/DocumentServlet?id=68904
URN (NBN):	urn:nbn:de:hbz:061-20250304-101525-4
Kollektion:	Publikationen
Sprache:	Englisch
Dokumententyp:	Wissenschaftliche Texte » Artikel, Aufsatz
Medientyp:	Text
Autor:	Jakobs, Jannis [Autor]
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Stichwörter:	Accent marks, French influence, Double consonants, Accenting, Ormulum, Twelfth century
Beschreibung:	Based on a study contrasting the spellings of the Ormulum’s (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 1) Hand C with those of Orm, this article proposes that final < tt > did not necessarily indicate a short preceding vowel in the hypothesized spelling system which Orm sought to reform, and that the Ormulum’s double accent marks might serve to prophylactically counteract a spelling habit present in Orm’s house of doubling final < t > following an etymological long vowel. It argues thus against previous explanations which tend to construe the double accents as redundant markers of vowel length. Further evidence is adduced to suppose that the unexpected doubling of final < t > could have been a post-Conquest orthographical tendency arising from the intermixture of English and (Anglo-)French spelling systems.
Rechtliche Vermerke:	Originalveröffentlichung: Jakobs, J. (2023). The Purpose of Double Accenting in the Ormulum and a Possible French Connection. Neophilologus, 108(1), 103–122. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-023-09788-3
Lizenz:	Dieses Werk ist lizenziert unter einer Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International Lizenz
Fachbereich / Einrichtung:	Philosophische Fakultät
Dokument erstellt am:	04.03.2025
Dateien geändert am:	04.03.2025