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Chaucer study center6/13/2023 ![]() of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (London: Chaucer Society, 1875). See Henry Cromie, A Rhyme-Index to the Ellesmere Ms. ![]() The programming for this phase of the project is complete so that I hope to be able to publish the results soon.Ī more detailed version of these last two explorations was presented at ICCH/3 at Waterloo in 1977, “Semantic Stress in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.”įor a similar study which eschews the semantic approach, but presents a valuable method for locating comparable short passages in poetry see Joseph Raben's “Computer Research in the Study of Literature” in Antonio Zampolli, ed., Linguistica Matematica e calcolatori (Firenze: Olschki, 1973), p. ![]() Also valuable is Merle Fifield's Theoretical Techniques for the Analysis of Variety in Chaucer's Metrical Stress (Muncie, Ind.: Ball State University, 1973). 4.Ī brief classroom experiment indicates that any contemporary speaker is relatively competent to determine degrees of semantic stress in words taken out of context.įor a survey of the controversy about Chaucer's verse see Ian Robinson, Chaucer's Prosody: a Study of the Middle English Verse Tradition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971). (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1954), p. See the “Plan and Bibliography” of The Middle English Dictionary, Hans Kurath and Sherman M. Nelson Francis, Computational Analysis of Present-Day American English (Providence: Brown University Press, 1967). “Beyond the Concordance: Semantic and Mythic Structure in Gower's Tale of Florent,” Neophilologus 61 (1977). Jaček Fisiak, The Morphemic Structure of Chaucer's English (University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1965). Nida, The Componential Analysis of Meaning (The Hague: Mouton, 1975). Barney, Word-Hoard: An Introduction to Old English Vocabulary (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977). Manly and Edith Rickert, The Text of the Canterbury Tales (Chicago, 1940).Ī Concordance to the Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, John Tatlock and Arthur G. ![]() At some future point we will have to consider substantive variants from the definitive edition in eight volumes by John M. I wish to thank Professor Stanley Kahrl and The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Ohio State for their support of our project. Neither work considers the structure of the vocabulary as a whole, but Elliott's chapter organization and index of words cited make his work especially valuable. Elliott's Chaucer's English (London: Deutsch, 1974) is a comprehensive study of Chaucer's diction from a rhetorical perspective. Norman Eliason's The Language of Chaucer's Poetry (Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1972) emphasizes characterization through language. Two valuable studies of Chaucer's language have recently appeared. al., A Chronological English Dictionary (Heidelberg, 1970). This application of the principles of structuralism to a theory of text is, as far as I know, my own. This quasi-Platonic model of language has been fostered in me remotely by the writings of Ouspensky, Chardin, and Vygotsky, but proximately by Gerard Salton's lecture at ICCH/2 where he used the model of a balloon.
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