Book contents
- Imagining Medieval English
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
- Imagining Medieval English
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Notes on contributors
- Book part
- I Introduction
- II Organizing ideas
- Chapter 2 What was medieval English?
- 3 The evolution of Old and Middle English texts: linguistic form and practices of literacy
- Chapter 4 Snakes, ladders, and standard language
- III The continuities of language
- IV The discontinuities of English
- V Retrospection
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
Chapter 4 - Snakes, ladders, and standard language
from II - Organizing ideas
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2015
- Imagining Medieval English
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
- Imagining Medieval English
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Notes on contributors
- Book part
- I Introduction
- II Organizing ideas
- Chapter 2 What was medieval English?
- 3 The evolution of Old and Middle English texts: linguistic form and practices of literacy
- Chapter 4 Snakes, ladders, and standard language
- III The continuities of language
- IV The discontinuities of English
- V Retrospection
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
- Type
- Chapter
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- Imagining Medieval EnglishLanguage Structures and Theories, 500–1500, pp. 54 - 78Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016
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