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Jonathan Reeve: Computational Literary Analysis · Jun 6, 2017

A Macro-Etymological Analysis of The Canterbury Tales

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Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales exhibits one of the richest vocabularies of Middle English literature, a vocabulary that reveals influences from a number of native and foreign languages: Old English, French, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, among others. While some of this foreign influence may be attributed simply to the history of the English language—the Roman Empire, the Norman conquest of 1066, and…

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