Aspects of Lexical and Morphosyntactical Mixing in the Languages of Medieval England

Author / Editor
Rothwell, William.

Title
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.