The beginnings of standardization language and culture in fourteenth-century England /

The beginnings of standardization language and culture in fourteenth-century England / [Texte imprimé] : Ursula Schaefer (ed.) - Frankfurt am Main ; New York : P. Lang, cop. 2006 - 1 vol. (vi-200 p.) : ill. ; 21 cm - Studies in English medieval language and literature, vol. 15 1436-7521 ; . - Studies in English medieval language and literature (Peter Lang) Bd. 15 .

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The beginnings of standardization : the communicative space in fourteenth-century England / Ursula Schaefer -- Before Chaucer : evidences of an English literary vernacular with a standardizing tendency / Derek Pearsall -- Standardizing lay culture : secularity in French and English literature of the fourteenth century / Alastair Minnis -- Forms of standardization in terms for Middle English lyrics in the fourteenth century / Julia Boffey -- Language contact, multilingualism, and the evidence problem / David Trotter -- Poets, preachers and friars revisited : fourteenth-century multilingual Franciscan manuscripts / Annette Kehnel -- Fourteenth-century English in a diachronic perspective / Terttu Nevalainen -- On the development of borrowed connectives in fourteenth-century English / Matti Rissanen -- Randomness or design in the formation of a standardized phonemic inventory / Donka Minkova -- The status of late Middle English spellings as early evidence of the English vowel shift / Robert P. Stockwell -- The beginnings of standardization : an epilogue / Andrew James Johnston and Claudia Lange

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