The Vocalism Of Romanic Words In Chaucer

Author : Ruben Nojd
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ISBN 13 : 9781330685952
Total Pages : 186 pages
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Download or read book The Vocalism of Romanic Words in Chaucer (Classic Reprint) written by Ruben Nojd and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-04 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Vocalism of Romanic Words in Chaucer The present work was originally planned to comprise the whole of Chaucer's phonology. After the publication of F. Wild's excellent book on Chaucer's language a good deal of my preparatory researches proved unnecessary. Dealing almost exclusively with the poet's native word-treasure, Wild's work, however, calls for a complementary study, as far as the Romanic part is concerned. So I decided to make an attempt at a more detailed and systematic investigation into this part of Chaucer's vocabulary. Since, after tenBrink and Wild, there was little more to be said about the consonants, I confined my study to the vocalism. In arranging my material I found it more practical and from a Modem English point of view more profitable, to devote a separate part of the work to such questions as had a bearing upon the subject as a whole. Thus, for instance, it was more convenient to deal with combinatory sound-changes once for all than to take up the same question for each vowel separately. Occasionally, the problems dealt with led to a discussion of some questions of principle that had an intimate bearing upon Chaucer's language or on ME in general. Of course comparisons with ModE were often inevitable. For the study of the Canterbury Tales, which have afforded the material for the larger part of these researches, I have used the Ellesmere MS, with continual attention, however, also to the other MSS of the Six-d104 Edition. The other works have been studied chiefly in Skeat's edition. Following Skeat, I have consistently printed v where the MSS have u for this consonant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.