Chaucer and the Invention of English

Author / Editor
Smith, Jeremy J.

Title
Chaucer and the Invention of English

Published
SAC 24: 335-46, 2002.

Description
Sociohistorical commentary on the rise of prestige markers in English writing and speech, focusing on accent as a marker in Chaucer's time and soon after, in particular the pronunciation of final -e, the Great Vowel Shift, and northern dialect features of RvT.

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