Polysemy in Context: 'Meten' and 'Dremen' in Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Lozowski, Przemyslaw.
Polysemy in Context: 'Meten' and 'Dremen' in Chaucer
- Published
- Nikolaus Ritt and Herbert Schendl, eds. Rethinking Middle English: Linguistic and Literary Approaches (New York and Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2005), pp. 125-46.
- Description
- Disputes the assumption that "meten" and "dremen" are synonyms in Chaucer and illustrates systematic differentiation in WBT, NPT, BD, Rom, HF, Bo, and TC (plus other, non-Chaucerian texts). In general, the late fourteenth century is a transitional period for dream vocabulary that invited more precise usage. The author correlates Chaucer's usage of "meten" and "dremen" and Macrobius's true and false dreams, respectively.
- Alternative Title
- Rethinking Middle English: Linguistic and Literary Approaches.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.