The beginnings of standardization [Texte imprimé] : language and culture in fourteenth-century England / Ursula Schaefer (ed.)

Notes bibliogr.

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 <ei> spellings as early evidence of the English vowel shift / Robert P. Stockwell -- The beginnings of standardization : an epilogue / Andrew James Johnston and Claudia Lange