Middle English Prosodic Innovations and Their Testability in Verse
- Author / Editor
- Minkova, Donka.
Middle English Prosodic Innovations and Their Testability in Verse
- Published
- Irma Taavitsainen, Terttu Nevalainen, Päivi Pahta, and Matti Rissanen, eds. Placing Middle English in Context (Berlin and New York: Gruyter, 2000), pp. 431-59.
- Description
- Surveys critical discussion of the prosodic behavior of Romance loan words in Middle English, challenging the Halle/Keyser analysis and the reliability of rhyme. Providing examples from alliterative poetry, Chaucer, and Henryson, Minkova argues that borrowing did not substantially alter the "core principles" of stress in Middle English.
- Alternative Title
- Placing Middle English in Context.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification.