Sylvester, Louise, and Jane Roberts.
Cambridge : D. S. Brewer, 2000.
An annotated bibliography of studies that pertain to Middle English words and word groups, especially studies that go beyond information available in the Middle English Dictionary and the Oxford English Dictionary. Includes studies of lexicon, word…
Killough, George [B.]
Text: Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship 3 (1987): 183-209.
Analyzes mid-line virgules as punctuation in a number of manuscripts of Middle English verse, concluding that the practice was neither tied to native alliterative meter nor strikingly unusual. The practice was erratic, and seems to have been scribal…
Yoshikawa, Fumiko.
Michiko Ogura, ed. Textual and Contextual Studies in Medieval English: Towards the Reunion of Linguistics and Philology (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2006), pp. 205-16.
Yoshikawa studies Middle English verbs with both reflexive and impersonal uses in ten typical situations, considering Chaucer's uses of "menen" and "remembren" as examples where semantic value and the nature of the participants affect usage.
Machan, Tim William.
A. J. Minnis and Charlotte Brewer, eds. Crux and Controversy in Middle English Textual Criticism (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1992), pp. 1-18.
Challenges traditional distinctions between "auctor" and "scribe," associating their strict separation with New Criticism and affiliating it, in turn, with the methods of George Kane. Calls for a textual method sensitive to medieval notions of…
Meier, Hans H.
Michael Benskin and M. L. Samuels, eds. So Meny People, Longages and Tonges: Philological Essays in Scots and Mediaeval English Presented to Angus McIntosh (Edinburgh: Authors, 1981), pp. 367-76.
Deals with Charles d'Orleans and Chaucer's use of Dante.
Gray, Douglas, and E. G. Stanley, eds.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983.
A collection of essays on Chaucer; the career of Davis; "Piers Plowman;" a poem to William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester;the printing of medieval texts; Jocelin of Brakelond; ME linguistics; and clocks and dials. For six essays that pertain to…
Redford, Michael.
Paula Fikkert and Haike Jacobs, eds. Development in Prosodic Systems (Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2003), pp. 159-95.
Redford analyzes Chaucerian evidence pertaining to Middle English words that "appear to have initial stress" in certain contexts and "final stress in others." Examines several prominent theories and explanations, arguing that meter can be useful in…
Speed, Diane, ed.
Sydney: Department of English, University of Sydney, 1989.
Correction and update of 1987 edition. Volume 1 includes a general introduction and bibliography, plus texts and introductions to Havelok, Sir Orfeo, Chevelere Assigne, Sir Cleges, Rauf Coilyear, and The Grene Knight. Volume 2 includes explanatory…
Burlin proposes a structuralist model for the medieval romance, adopting a Saussurean paradigm of intersecting axes: the "paradigmatic axis furnished with the test and courtly codes and the syntagmatic axis with the quest and the test." Includes…