The Great Vowel Shift in the North of England, and Some Forms in Chaucer's 'Reeve's Tale'

Author / Editor
Smith, Jeremy (J.)

Title
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.