Phrasal Repetends and 'The Manciple's Prologue and Tale'

Author / Editor
Lancashire, Ian.

Title
Phrasal Repetends and 'The Manciple's Prologue and Tale'

Published
Ian Lancashire, ed. Computer-Based Chaucer Studies (Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 1993), pp. 99-122

Description
Defines repetends as either (1) "repeating fixed phrases," or (2) "repeating collocations" in which word order may change and other words may intervene. Computer-assisted tabulation of repetends enables stylistic comparison of ManPT to GP, indicating that Chaucer alternated conventional and innovative language in patterns that may help us date his works in relation to each other.

Alternative Title
Computer-Based Chaucer Studies.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification.
Manciple and His Tale.
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.