The Great Vowel Shift in the North of England, and Some Forms in Chaucer's 'Reeve's Tale'
- Author / Editor
- Smith, Jeremy (J.)
The Great Vowel Shift in the North of England, and Some Forms in Chaucer's 'Reeve's Tale'
- Published
- Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 95 (1994): 433-37.
- Description
- Some northernisms in RvT have been dismissed as quasi-northern or as scribal misreadings. However, these forms are genuine attempts by post-Shift southern scribes to reflect a pre-Shift northern pronunciation.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Reeve and His Tale
- Language and Word Studies.