"Of harmes two, the lesse is for to chese": An Integrated OT-Maxent Approach to Syntactic Inversion in Chaucer's Verse.
- Author / Editor
- Li, Xingzhong.
"Of harmes two, the lesse is for to chese": An Integrated OT-Maxent Approach to Syntactic Inversion in Chaucer's Verse.
- Published
- Don Chapman, Colette Moore, and Miranda Wilcox, eds. Studies in the History of the English Language VII: Generalizing vs. Particularizing Methodologies in Historical Linguistic Analysis (Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2016), pp. 107-30.
- Series
- Studies in the History of the English Language, no. 7.
- Description
- Seeks to "account for constraints governing Chaucer's syntactic inversions with a purpose to uncover Chaucer's underlying metrical principles," employing a combination of "optimality theory" and "Maxent Grammars" and analyzing "every tenth line" of the pentameter verse in the Riverside edition of Chaucer's works.
- Contributor
- Chapman, Don, ed.
Moore, Colette, ed.
Wilcox, Miranda, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Generalizing vs. Particularizing Methodologies in Historical Linguistic Analysis
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification