Table of Contents

1. From the early modern era to an international research area Marco Condorelli; 2. A phonological-graphemic approach to the investigation of spelling functionality, with reference to early modern Polish Tomasz Lisowski; 3. Graphematic features in Glagolitic and Cyrillic orthographies: a contribution to the typological model of biscriptality Per Ambrosiani; 4. The emergence of sentence-internal capitalisation in Early New High German: towards a multifactorial quantitative account Lisa Dücker, Stefan Hartmann and Renata Szczepaniak; 5. French and Spanish punctuation in the sixteenth-seventeenth century grammars: a model of diachronic and comparative graphematics Elena Llamas-Pombo; 6. Orthographical variation and materiality of a manuscript: prestandard Lithuanian spellings in Simonas Daukantas's History of the Lithuanian Lowlands (1831–1834) Giedrius Subaèius; 7. Investigating methods: intra-textual, inter-textual and cross-textual variable analyses Anja Voeste; 8. Orthography and group identity: a comparative approach to studying orthographical systems in early modern Czech printed and handwritten texts (c.1560–1710) Alena A. Fidlerová; 9. Orthographical solutions at the onset of early modern Croatian: an application of the grapholinguistic method Mateo Žagar; 10. Women's spelling in early modern English: perspectives from new media Melanie Evans and Caroline Tagg; 11. Towards a relativity of spelling change Marco Condorelli; 12. Synergic dialogue in historical orthography: national philologies, comparability and questions for the future Marco Condorelli and Anja Voeste..

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With a focus on empirical methods, this book traces the development of European orthographies in the early modern period.

About the Author

Marco Condorelli, University of Central Lancashire, Preston.