Sources of London English: Medieval Thames Vocabulary
by Laura Wright
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The macaronic (mixed-language) business texts of London for the period 1275 to 1500 present a rich source of evidence for the medieval dialect of London English. Hitherto they have been ignored because of mistaken ideas about their value: they have been viewed as bastardized forms produced byill-educated scribes. We cannot dismiss macaronic documents as debased or degenerate without investigation, nor should we underestimate the evidence they present for the development of the English show more language. The contemporary importance of these documents is attested by their sheer number - it iseasier today to find macaronic business documents from the late medieval period in record offices than it is to find monolingual texts.The book focuses on terminology surrounding the River Thames to present a study of the medieval dialect of London. The vocabulary survey lists many words which had previously been lost to us, and the illustrative extracts from the texts present a fascinating picture of life in medieval times on theRiver Thames. The author's analysis covers the orthography, phonology, and morphology of the dialect as revealed in these texts. show lessTags
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Laura Wright is a bestselling American author of the Mark of the Vampire series, as well as the Bayou Heat and No Ring Required Series. She grew up in Minnesota and has been in Los Angeles for a while, writing. She was also an accomplished competitive ballroom dancer. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Nonfiction, Hunting and Fishing, History, Sports and Leisure
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- 427.1 — Language English & Old English languages Historical and geographic variations, modern nongeographic variations of English [formerly Greater London, now in 427.9421]
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- PE1961 .W69 — Language and Literature English language English Dialects. Provincialisms, etc.
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