A Guide to Chaucer's Language
- Author / Editor
- Burnley, David.
A Guide to Chaucer's Language
- Published
- Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1983.
- Description
- Provides apparatus for interpreting Chaucer's text, placing his language in its wider contemporary context, and studies differences in grammar between Chaucerian and Modern English, sentence linkage and scribal punctuation, the dialectal status of fourteenth-century London English, the potential for stylistic variation in Chaucer's language, and his semantic structure, interpenetrated by French and Latin.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.