"Curious fact": Fading of Northernisms in "The Reeve's Tale."

Author / Editor
Okamoto, Hiroki.

Title
"Curious fact": Fading of Northernisms in "The Reeve's Tale."

Published
Bulletin of the Society for Chaucer Studies 5 (2017): 3–21.

Description
Reconsiders the role of the clerks' northern dialect in RvT as well as the Reeve's Norfolk dialect, paying particular attention to the fading of the former within the tale.

Chaucer Subjects
Reeve and His Tale
Language and Word Studies