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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2023

Edited by
Marco Condorelli  and
Hanna Rutkowska
Marco Condorelli
Affiliation:
University of Central Lancashire, Preston
Hanna Rutkowska
Affiliation:
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan

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The Cambridge Handbook of Historical Orthography , pp. ix - x
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  1. 2.1The extension of initial logograms along the phonological and semantic dimensions into further logograms and beyond to phonograms and semantic determinatives

  2. 3.1Graphemes as the smallest suprasegmental units

  3. 3.2The minuscule p

  4. 3.3The length hierarchy of letter heads

  5. 3.4Stroke order for 你 ‘you’ (pīnyīn nǐ)

  6. 3.5Combining marks as character type in typography

  7. 3.6Relation between characters and glyphs

  8. 3.7Variant glyphs of the characters ‘A’ and ‘a’

  9. 3.8The features [+/− empty] and [+/− vertical] according to Reference BreastedBredel (2008)

  10. 10.1Syllabic suspension

  11. 10.2Abbreviation of final m

  12. 10.3The macron symbol used for contraction

  13. 10.4Some variants of the macron

  14. 10.5“Abbreviation marks significant in themselves”

  15. 11.1Alphabet according to Jan Kochanowski

  16. 11.2Alphabet according to Łukasz Górnicki

  17. 11.3Alphabet according to Jan Januszowski

  18. 12.1The elder futhark consisting of 24 signs (c. AD 100–700)

  19. 12.2Swedish variant of the younger futhorc consisting of 16 signs (c. AD 700–1200)

  20. 13.1Percentage of orthographic forms per year coming into widespread use

  21. 13.2Percentage of orthographic forms per year undergoing a rapid decline in usage

  22. 14.1Dedication to Augustus, Herculaneum, first century AD

  23. 14.2Table 5 of the Iguvine Tables, showing the end of the older text (in the Umbrian alphabet) followed by the beginning of the newer text (in the Latin alphabet)

  24. 16.1Die sieben Herzensleiden Unserer Lieben Frau, with highlighted uppercase and lowercase letters of nomina sacra

  25. 16.2Maria in lower case (vocative after full stop)

  26. 16.3Percentages of final e in singular and plural

  27. 16.4Undesired combination of i-dot and ascender

  28. 16.5Percentages of <y> and <i> in relation to following ascenders/nonascenders (Σ 92)

  29. 18.1Margins and writing space in MS Hunter 497

  30. 18.2Nominal and adjectival compounds in handwritten texts

  31. 18.3Nominal and adjectival compounds in printed texts

  32. 18.4Reflexive forms in handwritten texts

  33. 18.5Reflexive forms in printed texts

  34. 18.6Other adverbs and prepositions in handwritten texts

  35. 18.7Other adverbs and prepositions in printed texts

  36. 18.8Development of shalbe and asmuch in handwritten texts

  37. 18.9Development of shalbe and asmuch in printed texts

  38. 20.1LB tablet from Knossos (KN Da 1156)

  39. 22.1A page from Simplified Spelling. For the Use of Government Departments

  40. 24.1Runic stick from Bergen, the Middle Ages

  41. 26.1Germanic alphabet of runes

  42. 28.1Distribution of sibilant spellings in the loanwords in Nahuatl manuscripts

  43. 29.1Reformed alphabet implemented by Madrid teachers in the 1840s

  44. 30.1The incremental change of <ae> to <aa> across centuries

  45. 30.2The change from <ae> to <aa> across regions and centuries

  46. 31.1The English vowel system

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  • Online publication: 28 September 2023
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