The Rise and Fall of the Great Vowel Shift? : The Changing Ideological Intersections of Philology, Historical Linguistics, and Literary History

Author / Editor
Giancarlo, Matthew.

Title
The Rise and Fall of the Great Vowel Shift? : The Changing Ideological Intersections of Philology, Historical Linguistics, and Literary History

Published
Representations 76: 27-60, 2001.

Description
Reviewing the traditional narrative of the Great Vowel Shift, with its recognition by Chaucer's early editors that major changes in prosody were underway, Giancarlo suggests revision of the monolithic GVS model in the direction of a more localized and more scientifically defensible model of Modern English vowel shifts.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.