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》的两个代表性译本和两个代表性手稿进行平行整理，为乔叟作品的文本批评和分析提供参考。这两份手稿是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。这四个文本没有进行平行的索引。除了诗句行平行的整理外，散文行的对应也做了相应的整理。抄写员的两个手稿被认为是相同的（亚当Pinkhurst），然而，人们发现，他作出了许多编辑修订之间，甚至对散文。我们不仅研究了诗句的否定形式的变化，而且还研究了散文的否定形式的变化，并于2012年7月在波特兰的新乔叟学会上展示了我们的发现。由于我们的平行索引是数字化的，预计将创造多样化的研究。

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.