Past Presences of Old Scots Abroad

Author / Editor
Meier, Hans H.

Title
Past Presences of Old Scots Abroad

Published
Caroline Macafee and Iseabail Macleod, eds. The Nuttis Schell: Essays on Scots Language Presented to A. J. Aitken (Aberdeen, Aberdeen University Press, 1987), pp. 116-23.

Description
Describes several literary representations of Older Scots language; includes RvT because Older Scots and Northern English "are not generally considered as distinct" in the late medieval period. Commends Chaucer for his comprehensive "imitation of regional speech, i.e. phonological, morphological, grammatical and lexical features, such as was not again to be achieved in comic representations of Scots abroad."

Contributor
Macafee, Caroline, ed.
Macleod, Iseabail, ed.

Alternative Title
Nuttis Schell: Essays on Scots Language Presented to A. J. Aitken.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
Reeve and His Tale