O JĘZYKU GAZET RĘKOPIŚMIENNYCH Z XVII I XVIII WIEKU
On the Language of Handwritten Newspapers from the 17th and 18th Centuries

Summary/Abstract: The source materials to this article are the collection of handwritten press from the years 1671–1772, gathered in the National Archives in Toruń. The analyzed texts are interesting due to their quantity as well as their topic and linguistic variety. The outline is an attempt to describe the most characteristic features of scripts. The analysis includes selected graphic issues, orthography, phonetics, inflection, syntax, lexis and stylistics. Linguistic facts have been illustrated by exemplification from the sources, precisely located and confirmed by information excerpted from scholarly literature. The source material, though extending beyond Baroque, is treated as a text of that epoch since it remains in the area of traditional Baroque writing.

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