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Discusses Chaucer's organic use of allegory in TC and MerT, focusing on personified abstractions.

Application of Key Word in Context Index. In Japanese, with English summary.

Chaucer makes the best of recurring rhyme pairs such as 'joye'/'Troye', 'gladnesse'/'destresse', and 'pleasaunce'/'remembraunce' to describe the mutability of worldly happiness in TC.

Describes Chaucer's use of the present participle in progressive constructions, which occur most frequently in CT.

Argues that a semiotic analysis of oppositions in the narrative structure of CT yields a better understanding of Chaucer's perception of the nature of reality.

Surveys and analyzes Chaucer's phonological, lexical, grammatical, and discourse ambiguities.

The text of Bo ("The Riverside Chaucer") retains inadequate punctuation marks from previous editions and leaves several passages quite difficult to understand, though the edition shows a number of lexical improvements. The article emends punctuation…

Effective use of repetition solves the question of justice through obvious devices such as polyptoton, semantic implantation, and verbal association.

Discusses ambiguity in TC, first from the standpoint of the reader, then as a key to meaning, and finally from the imaginary standpoint of an ideal reader who can be at once sympathetic and detached.

Ono examines Chaucer's personal and impersonal uses of the verbs "meten" and "dremen" to refer to dreams. The personal use emerged in the fourteenth century.

Describes seventy-five Chaucerian examples of the verb "bid" from semantic and syntactic points of view, and examines the extent to which it is a causative or an auxiliary.

Caie comments on the presence of glosses in English literary manuscripts, arguing that glosses to WBP, MerT, and MLT can be read as attempts by Chaucer (or his scribes) to contain the subversive potential of texts that the glosses accompany.

Describes a comprehensive comparison of two manuscripts and two editions of CT.

Compares frequencies of different negative forms as well as syntactic, lexical, and semantic negative patterns in the Hengwrt and Ellesmere manuscripts and two critical editions by Blake and Benson, respectively. Tabulates the result as statistical…

Focuses on words and phrases collocating with "herte," "minde," and "soule" in CT and TC and analyzes how Chaucer "exerts his influence on the reader's/audience's emotion" through the use of these words.

Examines linguistic features of Pynson's and de Worde's editions of KnT and discusses similarities to and difference from each other, Caxton's editions, and the Ellesmere and Hengwrt manuscripts.

Assesses the characterization of Criseyde in TC in light of the adjectives she uses and those used of her by the narrator, Troilus, and Pandarus, helping to characterize them as well. Includes comparable data from Boccaccio's "Filostrato."

Analyzes nature-related adjectives in TC. Key findings include Chaucer's enhancement of Venus's role, symbolic natural imagery reflecting Criseyde's betrayal, and a sympathetic tone toward her in descriptions of animals and plants.

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Charts word order in various editions of CT and TC with reference to manuscripts on which they are based. Although the evidence in CT is obscure, Root's edition of TC shows a marked tendency toward modern subject-verb-object syntax. Includes an…

Tallies instances of variant spellings in modern editions of Chaucer's works, focusing on the loss of letters initially, medially, and finally. Data are derived from editions by Blake, Benson, and Robinson for CT, and Benson, Robinson, Windeatt, and…

Discusses Chaucer's imagination, investigating the description of nature in TC. In Japanese.

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A study of Chaucer's works from a linguistic-stylistic approach, based on Jimura's doctoral dissertation (2002).

Japanese translation of Bo based on Larry Benson, gen ed., The Riverside Chaucer, with notes.