Studies in the History of the English Language IV: Empirical and Analytical Advances in the Study of English Language Change
- Author / Editor
- Fitzmaurice, Susan M., and Donka Minkova, eds.
Studies in the History of the English Language IV: Empirical and Analytical Advances in the Study of English Language Change
- Published
- New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2008.
- Physical Description
- ix, 433 pp.
- Description
- Nineteen studies, including position papers, responses, and counter responses. A set of exchanges pertains to Chaucer: In "Metrical Evidence: Did Chaucer Translate The Romaunt of the Rose'?" (pp. 155-79), Xingzhong Li affirms on metrical grounds that Chaucer translated Fragment A of Rom, did not translate Fragment B, and probably did translate Fragment C. Thomas Cable, in "The Elusive Progress of Prosodical Study" (pp. 101-19), critiques Li's emphasis on meter while ignoring "beat." In "Trochees in an Iambic Meter: Assumptions or Evidence?" (pp. 181-85), Li argues that statistical evidence better supports his own claims than it does Cable's critique.
- Contributor
- Li, Xingzhong.
- Cable, Thomas
- Minkova, Donka, ed.
- Alternative Title
- "Metrical Evidence: Did Chaucer Translate 'The Romaunt of the Rose'?"
- "The Elusive Progress of Prosodical Study."
- "Trochees in an Iambic Meter: Assumptions or Evidence?"
- Chaucer Subjects
- Romaunt of the Rose
- Style and Versification