@inbook{0d9f1704dc554174937d0202e202f174,
title = "Linguistic Repertoires and Intra-Writer Variation in Old English: Hemming of Worcester",
abstract = "This chapter explores intra- writer variation in the works of Hemming of Worcester, an eleventh- century monk whose hand has been identified in seven surviving manuscripts. A corpus compares selections from Hemming{\textquoteright}s written output alongside parallel selections from other textual witnesses. The resulting scribal profile builds on data in Wallis (2013a) to analyse his variation in four features which deviate from {\textquoteleft}standard{\textquoteright} or {\textquoteleft}focused{\textquoteright} Late- West- Saxon: spellings, o+ nasal, retraction of - ward, and unstable (h- deletion and h- insertion). Hemming{\textquoteright}s variation is shown to be due to two main factors, constrained selection (influenced by exemplar forms) in {\textquoteleft}local{\textquoteright} texts, and his own preferred usage, based on ongoing sound changes in late-Old English.",
author = "Christine Wallis",
year = "2023",
month = aug,
day = "31",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-1-80079-703-1",
volume = "5",
series = " Historical Sociolinguistics. Studies on Language and Society in the Past",
publisher = "Peter Lang",
pages = "451--472",
editor = "Markus Schiegg and Judith Huber",
booktitle = "Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Linguistics",
address = "Germany",
}