Sources of Standardisation in Later Middle English

Author / Editor
Burnley, J. D.

Title
Sources of Standardisation in Later Middle English

Published
Joseph B. Trahern, Jr., ed. Standardizing English: Essays in the History of Language Change, in Honor of John Hurt Fisher (Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, 1989), pp. 23-41.

Description
In sociolinguistic terms, Burnley examines orthography among literary scribes of Chaucer's day to find that spelling was far from standardized.

Alternative Title
Standardizing English: Essays in the History of Language Change, in Honor of John Hurt Fisher.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.