Aspects of Lexical and Morphosyntactical Mixing in the Languages of Medieval England
- Author / Editor
- Rothwell, William.
Aspects of Lexical and Morphosyntactical Mixing in the Languages of Medieval England
- Published
- D. A. Trotter, ed. Multilingualism in Later Medieval Britain (Cambridge; and Rochester, N.Y.: D. S. Brewer, 2000), pp. 213-32.
- Description
- Studies the "York Memorandum Book" for examples of the ways Latin, French, and English "intertwined" in medieval England. Rothwell opens with commentary on the vocabulary of a passage from MLP in which Chaucer "Englishes" several French words and makes hybrid words from the two languages.
- Alternative Title
- Multilingualism in Later Medieval Britain.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Man of Law and His Tale.
- Language and Word Studies.