Chancery English and the Wife of Bath's Prologue
- Author / Editor
- Blake, N. F.
Chancery English and the Wife of Bath's Prologue
- Published
- Terttu Nevalainen and Leena Kahlas-Tarkka, eds. To Explain the Present: Studies in the Changing English Language in Honour of Matti Rissanen(Helsinki: Sociłtł Nłophilologique, 1997), pp. 3-24.
- Description
- Computer-assisted analysis of forms of Chancery English in manuscripts of WBP indicates a drift toward standardizaiton, most striking in the change from "swich" to "such." Yet, the pull to the Chancery Standard is not always clear.
- Alternative Title
- To Explain the Present: Studies in the Changing English Language in Honour of Matti Rissanen.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.