Linguistic Change and Metre: The Demise of Adjectival Inflections and the Scansion of "High" and "Sly" in Chaucer, Gower and Hoccleve.
- Author / Editor
- Putter, Ad.
Linguistic Change and Metre: The Demise of Adjectival Inflections and the Scansion of "High" and "Sly" in Chaucer, Gower and Hoccleve.
- Published
- English Language Linguistics 26 (2022): 471-85.
- Description
- Treats the scansion of "high" and "sly" in works by Chaucer, Gower, and Hoccleve--all "careful metrists"--as evidence of the demise of "inflection of monosyllabic adjectives (final -e for weak and plural adjectives)." Posits that irregularities in usage are due to the "vulnerability of schwa after front vowels," and offers several cautions for editors.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Style and Versification