AbstractsLanguage, Literature & Linguistics

Stress of romance words in Chaucer's prologue to The Knight's Tale.

by Helen S. Ward




Institution: University of Louisville
Department: College of Arts and Sciences
Degree: MA
Year: 1909
Record ID: 1487370
Full text PDF: http://ir.library.louisville.edu/etd/1529


Abstract

The effect of the Norman-French Conquest on the vocabulary of the English language was profound. Prior to the Twelfth Century the language contained but few word forms foreign to the Old English. The vocabulary of the Eleventh Century contained about thirty words of French origin and these must have come into the language previous to the conquest.