The Use of Northern Dialect and Middle Scots in the Scottish Literature

Author / Editor
Yoon, Minwoo.

Title
The Use of Northern Dialect and Middle Scots in the Scottish Literature

Published
Medieval English Studies (Seoul) 5: 215-41, 1997.

Description
Surveys representative examples of northern English dialect ("Alliterative Morte Arthure," RvT), Scottish Chaucerians (Henryson, Dunbar), and non-Chaucerian Scottish works (Barbour's "Bruce," "The Wallace") to identify common and distinctive linguistic features. Middle Scots is an identifiable dialect.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.
Reeve and His Tale.