Some Dialectical, Sociolectal and Communicative Aspects of Word Order Variation and Change in Late Middle English
- Author / Editor
- Eitler, Tamás.
Some Dialectical, Sociolectal and Communicative Aspects of Word Order Variation and Change in Late Middle English
- Published
- Michael D. Fortescue et al., eds. Historical Linguistics 2003: Selected Papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, 11-15 August 2003 (Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2005), pp. 87-102.
- Description
- Eitler studies the development of the "incipient standard" syntactic pattern (subject-verb-object), comparing data from Chaucer's prose works with data from other ME prose, characterizing his idiom as the "(relatively) upper class sociolect" of London and suggesting that syntactic analysis encourages us to accept Chaucer's authorship of Equat.
- Contributor
- Fortescue, Michael D., ed.
- Alternative Title
- Historical Linguistics 2003: Selected Papers from the 16th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Copenhagen, 11-15 August 2003.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.
- Style and Versification.
- Equatorie of the Planetis.