Publication Date
5-1970
Advisor(s) - Committee Chair
L.R. Little, Willson Wood
Degree Program
Department of English
Degree Type
Master of Arts
Abstract
This study may be considered an exercise in graphemic analysis. It proceeds from the point of view that writing is an independent manifestation of language. As such, the writing system of a language may be subject to a descriptive analysis based upon methods similar to those used in the analysis of spoken language systems. The purpose of such a description is to determine the distinctive and non -distinctive elements of the system.
Chapter V of this study is a graphemic analysis of one section of the Parker Manuscript. This analysis is based upon the principles discussed in Chapter II and follows the specific criteria presented in Chapter IV. Since the writing system of the text is an alphabetic one, Chapter VI indicates, to a limited extent, the relationship or fit of the writing system with the Late West Saxon dialect of Old English, of which the Parker Manuscript is a specimen.
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | English Language and Literature | Literature in English, British Isles
Recommended Citation
Reiss, Mary, "A Graphemic Analysis of an Old English Text: The Parker Manuscript, the Laws of Alfred & Ine" (1970). Masters Theses & Specialist Projects. Paper 2765.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/2765