'As Thise Clerkes Seyen': Exophoric Reference in Middle English and French Narrative
- Author / Editor
- Burnley, J. D.
'As Thise Clerkes Seyen': Exophoric Reference in Middle English and French Narrative
- Published
- Stewart Gregory and D. A. Trotter, eds. De mot en mot: Aspects of Medieval Linguistics. Essays in Honour of William Rothwell (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, with the Modern Humanities Research Association, 1997), pp. 1-15.
- Description
- The use of "thise" plus a noun (e.g., "thise clerkes," "thise men"), rarely found in Old English, is "particularly common" in Chaucer and Gower; it probably developed in early clerical discourse and, encouraged by some French parallels,spread to colloquial use in London in the fourteenth century.
- Contributor
- Gregory, Stewart,
- Trotter, D. A.,ed.
- ed.
- Alternative Title
- De mot en mot: Aspects of Medieval Linguistics. Essays in Honour of William Rothwell.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.