A computer-assisted comparison of the languages of the Hengwrt and Ellesmere MSs of the Canterbury Tales

本研究的目的是对《坎特伯雷故事集》的两个代表性手稿和两个代表性版本进行平行比对，并为乔叟作品的文本批评和分析做出贡献。这两个手稿是Hengwrt MS （Hg）和Ellesmere MS (El)，两个版本是Blake（1980）忠实地基于Hg和Benson（1987）主要基于El。这四篇文章并没有进行平行的协调。除了诗句行平行一致外，散文行平行一致也已形成。这两份手稿的抄写员被认为是同一人（亚当·平克赫斯特），然而，人们发现他在他们之间做了许多编辑修改，甚至关于散文。我们调查了否定形式的变化，不仅是诗句，还有散文，并于2012年7月在波特兰的新乔叟协会发表了我们的发现。由于我们的并行索引是数字化的，它有望创造多样化的研究。

The aim of this research is to make a parallel concordance between the two representative Manuscripts and the two representative editions of the Canterbury Tales, and conbribute to the text criticism and analyses of Chaucer's work. The two manuscripts are Hengwrt MS (Hg) and Ellesmere MS (El) and the two editions are Blake (1980) based faithfully on Hg and Benson (1987) mainly based on El. The four texts parallel concordance has not been made. In addition to the verse lines parallel concordance, the prose lines counterpart has been made. The scribe of the two manuscripts was regarded as the same (Adam Pinkhurst), however, it was found that he made many editorial revisions between them even about the prose. We investigated the variations of the negative forms not only of the verse lines but the prose, and made a presentation of our discoveries at the New Chaucer Society at Portland in July, 2012. Since our parallel concordance is digitalzed, it is expected to create diverse research.