Original Borrowings from the French in Chaucer's Translation of Le Roman de la Rose
- Author / Editor
- Kaufman, Janice Horner.
Original Borrowings from the French in Chaucer's Translation of Le Roman de la Rose
- Published
- MIFLC Review 1 (1991): 58-67.
- Description
- Twenty-five percent of the Old French loanwords in Rom are "new to English or used with a new English menaing'; most reflect influences of aristorcratic, secularized French romances. Includes chart of loanwords.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.