Words and Dictionaries: 'OED,' 'MED,' and Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Brewer, Charlotte.
Words and Dictionaries: 'OED,' 'MED,' and Chaucer
- Published
- Charlotte Brewer and Barry Windeatt, eds. Traditions and Innovations in the Study of Middle English Literature: The Influence of Derek Brewer (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2013), pp. 215-61.
- Description
- Analyzes the history of the OED's medieval portion, and emphasizes how Chaucer's "linguistic innovativeness" is shaped by the "substance of OED and MED quotations and definitions." Includes extensive appendix of OED's record of vocabulary in BD.
- Alternative Title
- Traditions and Innovations in the Study of Middle English Literature: The Influence of Derek Brewer.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
- Book of the Duchess