Politics and the Middle English Language

Author / Editor
Machan, Tim William.

Title
Politics and the Middle English Language

Published
SAC 24: 317-24, 2002.

Description
Challenging suggestions that individuals like Chaucer are agents of linguistic change, Machan argues that they cannot foresee history and therefore cannot work to a future end. The article surveys political factors in late-medieval English linguistic change.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.