The beginnings of standardization
Subtitle: language and culture in fourteenth-century England
By: Ursula Schaefer (ed.).
Contributors: Schaefer, Ursula, 1947-.
Series: Studies in English medieval language and literature -- v. 15; Studies in English medieval language and literature -- Bd. 15.
Publisher: P. Lang; Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9783631551066; 9780820498843
Subjects: English language -- Standardization.; English language -- History.
Description: Based on papers delivered to a colloquium entitled The Beginnings of Standardization: Language and Culture in Fourteenth-Century England, held from 1-3 April 2004.
Table of contents: title: The beginnings of standardization : the communicative space in fourteenth-century England / Ursula Schaefer; title: Before Chaucer : evidences of an English literary vernacular with a standardizing tendency / Derek Pearsall; title: Standardizing lay culture : secularity in French and English literature of the fourteenth century / Alastair Minnis; title: Forms of standardization in terms for Middle English lyrics in the fourteenth century / Julia Boffey; title: Language contact, multilingualism, and the evidence problem / David Trotter; title: Poets, preachers and friars revisited : fourteenth-century multilingual Franciscan manuscripts / Annette Kehnel; title: Fourteenth-century English in a diachronic perspective / Terttu Nevalainen; title: On the development of borrowed connectives in fourteenth-century English / Matti Rissanen; title: Randomness or design in the formation of a standardized phonemic inventory / Donka Minkova; title: The status of late Middle English <ei> spellings as early evidence of the English vowel shift / Robert P. Stockwell; title: The beginnings of standardization : an epilogue / Andrew James Johnston and Claudia Lange.