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Traders around the world use particular spoken argots, to guard
commercial secrets or to cement their identity as members of a
certain group. The written registers of traders, too, in
correspondence and other commercial texts show significant
differences from the language used in official, legal or private
writing. This volume suggests a clear cross-linguistic tendency
that mercantile writing displays a greater degree of language
mixing, code-switching and linguistic innovations, and, by setting
precedents, promote language change. This interdisciplinary volume
aims to place the traders' languages within a wider sociolinguistic
context. Questions addressed include: What differences can be
observed between mercantile registers and those of court or legal
scribes? Do the traders' texts show the early emergence of features
that take longer to permeate into the 'higher' varieties of the
same language? Do they anticipate language change in the standard
register or influence it by setting linguistic precedents? What
sets traders' letters apart from private correspondence and other
'low' registers? The book will also examine bilingualism,
semi-bilingualism, reasons for code-switching and the choice of
particular languages over others in commercial correspondence.
The majority of our evidence for language change in pre-modern
times comes from the written output of scribes. The present volume
deals with a variety of aspects of language change and focuses on
the role of scribes. The individual articles, which treat different
theoretical and empirical issues, reflect a broad cross-linguistic
and cross-cultural diversity. The languages that are represented
cover a broad spectrum, and the empirical data come from a wide
range of sources. This book provides a wealth of new data and new
perspectives on old problems, and it raises new questions about the
actual mechanisms of language change.
Following the publication of the first two volumes of Hebrew Bible Manuscripts in the Cambridge Genizah Collections, the process of describing the MS fragments is now complete. The third and fourth volumes present a comprehensive catalog of the Hebrew Bible fragments in the Taylor-Schechter Additional Series, describing in detail 14,679 items. The four volumes now provide the researcher with data on all 24,260 biblical fragments and are an indispensable tool for special interests in the Hebrew Bible, Jewish Studies and Semitics. Volume 1 ISBN (1982): 0-521-23859-5; Volume 2 ISBN (1981): 0-521-23622-3
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