BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news123@dslw.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20190403T111423 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20190409T100000 SUMMARY:The Emergence of Written Standard English (1400-1700): An Alternati ve Perspective DESCRIPTION:The emergence of what is often referred to as written Standard English has already received much attention by historians of the English l anguage and historical linguists. Until today\, the variety of English use d in administrative texts from London and propagated by Chancery clerks is often considered to be the source of what developed into written Standard English (cf. Fisher 1977\; Fisher et al. 1984). Even though this truism h as been convincingly challenged by for instance Wright (2000) and Benskin (2004)\, the processes involved in the uniformisation of written English a re not yet fully understood.\\r\\nThe aim of the project Emerging Standar ds: Urbanisation and the Development of Standard English\, c.1400-1700 is to shed light on the complex processes that are involved in the emergence and development of what became written Standard English. Even though Lond on as the metropolis was undoubtedly of great importance for the actuation and diffusion of many linguistic features\, other written varieties of En glish also need to be considered in order to gain a more complete picture. For this reason\, the project focuses on regional urban varieties between 1400-1700\, notably those of York\, Bristol\, Coventry\, and Norwich\, wh ich constituted the largest communities and important regional centres at the time (cf. Kermode 2000: 442\; Trudgill 2010: 53). As literacy rates we re significantly higher in these places\, it is possible to investigate an d compare various text types from the different urban centres.\\r\\nIn thi s presentation\, new findings on the diffusion of linguistic features will be presented. More precisely\, based on data from York\, Bristol and Cove ntry\, the presentation focuses on (1) the shift from Latin and Anglo-Norm an to English in civic records\, i.e. to determine in which text types Eng lish was used first in the surviving data\, and (2) the variation and chan ge of the present indicative 3rd person singular variable. The systematic investigation of this linguistic variable and the comparison across text t ypes and region allows us to gain a better understanding of the beginnings of written Standard English. X-ALT-DESC:The emergence of what is often referred to as written Standard E nglish has already received much attention by historians of the English la nguage and historical linguists. Until today\, the variety of English used in administrative texts from London and propagated by Chancery clerks is often considered to be the source of what developed into written Standard English (cf. Fisher 1977\; Fisher et al. 1984). Even though this truism ha s been convincingly challenged by for instance Wright (2000) and Benskin ( 2004)\, the processes involved in the uniformisation of written English ar e not yet fully understood.\nThe aim of the project \;Emerging Stan dards: Urbanisation and the Development of Standard English\, c.1400-1700< /i> \;is to shed light on the complex processes that are involved in t he emergence and development of what became written Standard English. Even though London as the metropolis was undoubtedly of great importance for t he actuation and diffusion of many linguistic features\, other written var ieties of English also need to be considered in order to gain a more compl ete picture. For this reason\, the project focuses on regional urban varie ties between 1400-1700\, notably those of York\, Bristol\, Coventry\, and Norwich\, which constituted the largest communities and important regional centres at the time (cf. Kermode 2000: 442\; Trudgill 2010: 53). As liter acy rates were significantly higher in these places\, it is possible to in vestigate and compare various text types from the different urban centres. \nIn this presentation\, new findings on the diffusion of linguistic featu res will be presented. More precisely\, based on data from York\, Bristol and Coventry\, the presentation focuses on (1) the shift from Latin and An glo-Norman to English in civic records\, i.e. to determine in which text t ypes English was used first in the surviving data\, and (2) the variation and change of the present indicative 3rd person singular variable. The sys tematic investigation of this linguistic variable and the comparison acros s text types and region allows us to gain a better understanding of the be ginnings of written Standard English. DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20190409T120000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR