Chaucer and Lydgate in Palsgrave's 'Lesclarcissement'

Author / Editor
Stein, Gabriele.

Title
Chaucer and Lydgate in Palsgrave's 'Lesclarcissement'

Published
Braj B. Kachru and Henry Kahane, eds. Cultures, Ideologies, and the Dictionary: Studies in Honor of Ladislav Zgusta (Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1995), pp. 127-39.

Description
Examines citations of Chaucer and Lydgate in John Palsgrave's "Lesclarcissement de la langue francoyse" (1530) as indications of the dictionary-maker's efforts to record "special language use," i.e., dialectical use and varying registers.

Contributor
Kachru, Braj B.,
Kahane, Henry,ed.
ed.

Alternative Title
Cultures, Ideologies, and the Dictionary: Studies in Honor of Ladislav Zgusta.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies