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early middle english dialects introduction chaucer’s life circumstances and language gifts contributed much to the development of the english language, and he is often credited with ‘founding’ or ‘inventing’ english literary language and, sometimes even, english as we know it. the expansion of the vocabulary of english did not, however, begin with his writings. in old english, an extensive vocabulary was referred to as a “treasure box” or a “word hoard” to be unlocked in speech, and norse words and many derived from latin were added to that store. that hoard included rich resources for creating new words out of old ones (prefixes and suffixes to add to existing words, and an inclination toward compounding — as in modern day german) whereby english vocabulary was continually enlarged by its own means, and, also, a store of words derived from old norse (as a result of viking invasions and conquests between …

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simply used) before, fall out of his active vocabulary. chaucer, who inhabited the court, dabbled in legal work, and travelled throughout western europe, would naturally (and necessarily) have spoken and written french and latin and clearly learned italian well later in life. it would be inaccurate to say, however, that chaucer’s audience would have perceived hard distinctions between the words derived from these languages. chaucer was equally alert to the demands of writing literary works in english, since this had rarely been done after the norman conquest with serious ambition (with the idea that english works could be the equal of poetry and prose in latin and french in particular). chaucer’s vocabulary is thus built on a dynamic network of origins leading to an equally dynamic set of associations with other vocabularies and linguistic history (newer borrowings might be heard more readily as such over against borrowing that were, say, …

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ere mostly of a religious nature. the great mass of these works is homilies, sermons in prose and verse, paraphrases from the bible, psalms and prayers. the earliest of these religious works, the роема morale ("moral ode") represents the kentish dialect of the late 12th or the early 13th с. of particular interest for the history of the language is ormulum, a poem composed by the monk orm in about 1200 in the north-east midland dialect (lincolnshire). it consists of unrhymed metrical paraphrases of the gospels. the text abounds in scandinavianisms and lacks french borrowings. its most outstanding feature is the spelling system devised by the author. he doubled the consonants after short vowels in closed syllables and used special semicircular marks over short vowels in open syllables. here are some lines from the poem where the author recommends that these rules should be followed in copying the poem: annd …

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ncerned with a limited number of matters. those relating to the "matter of britain" were probably the most popular and original works of english poets, though many of them were paraphrased from french. one of the earliest poems of this type was brut composed by layamon in the early 13th с. it is a free rendering of the brut d'angle-terre by wace, an anglo-norman writer of the 12th c., which tells the story of the legendary foundation of britain by brutus, the alleged great grandson of aeneas of troy; the last third of the poem is devoted to brut's most famous descendant, the mythical british king arthur and his "knights of the round table", who became the favourite subject of english knightly romances. the poem is written in alliterative verse with a considerable number of rhymes. it is noteworthy that the west midland dialect of brut, though nearly a century …

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cords represent different local dialects. the dialects were relatively equal as forms of the written language, beneath the twofold oppression of anglo-norman and latin writing. they retained a certain literary authority until it was overshadowed in the 14th с by the prestige of the london written language. late middle english. reestablishment of english as the language of the state and literature the domination of the french language in england came to an end in the course of the 14th с the victory of english was predetermined and prepared for by previous events and historical conditions. little by little the normans and the english drew together and intermingled. in the 14th с. anglo-norman was a dead language; it appeared as corrupt french to those who had access to the french of paris through books, education or direct contacts. the number of people who knew french had fallen; anglo-norman and french literary …

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early middle english dialects introduction chaucer’s life circumstances and language gifts contributed much to the development of the english language, and he is often credited with ‘founding’ or ‘inventing’ english literary language and, sometimes even, english as we know it. the expansion of the vocabulary of english did not, however, begin with his writings. in old english, an extensive vocabulary was referred to as a “treasure box” or a “word hoard” to be unlocked in speech, and norse words and many derived from latin were added to that store. that hoard included rich resources for creating new words out of old ones (prefixes and suffixes to add to existing words, and an inclination toward compounding — as in modern day …

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