Chapter 9. The pragmatics of punctuation in Middle English documentary texts

Smith, Jeremy J.

doi:10.1075/ahs.11.09smi

In:Records of Real People: Linguistic variation in Middle English local documents
Edited by Merja Stenroos and Kjetil V. Thengs
[Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics 11] 2020
► pp. 205–218

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Chapter 9
The pragmatics of punctuation in Middle English documentary texts

Jeremy J. Smith | University of Glasgow

Published online: 10 December 2020

https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.11.09smi

Article outline

9.1On punctuation and pragmatics
9.2Some fifteenth-century Welsh documents
9.3The punctuation of letters
9.4Conclusions

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Chapter 9The pragmatics of punctuation in Middle English documentary texts

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Chapter 9
The pragmatics of punctuation in Middle English documentary texts