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Proposes quire structures for four paper manuscripts, focusing on watermarks and commenting on implications of the proposed structures. Assesses British Library MS Arundel 140 (Ar); British Library MS Harley 2382 (Hl3); Magdalene College, Cambridge…

Links books as physical objects with customized Chaucer editions. Reviews how owners of early Chaucer editions customized their copies by adding "memorial inscriptions, title-page embellishments, and portraits inserted as frontispieces." As a result…

Examines variants in WBP 3.115-17 (especially "wight" versus "wright") to identify flaws in applying cladistic theory to manuscript stemmatics. Cladistic analysis underlies the Canterbury Tales Project.

Surveys the Greco-Roman mythological material in KnT, suggesting that its presence deepens the tale's themes and broadens its impact.

Considers a wheel-motif in RvT as an example of Chaucer's literary artistry.

Survey of love and art in PF.

Godfrey echoes PardT.

Draws parallels between Chaucer's tense shift and Japanese I-mode, where tense shift occurs from the past to the present. Identifies tense shifts across various units, from a single metrical line to an extended piece of discourse consisting of…

Conventional and hackneyed words in Chaucer assume delicate shades of meaning depending on context.

In Japanese, with English summary, 141-42.

Thirty essays by various authors, addressing synchronic and diachronic issues in English language study--lexicon, grammar, morphology, phonology, prosody, dialect, scribal variation, and syntax. Includes a curriculum vitae, a bibliography of Oizumi's…

Explores the possible originations of select rhyming pairs in Chaucer's works, especially those involving proper names, observing Latin and Continental precedents and also commenting on recurrent non-onomastic rhymes that involve semantic…

Analyzes "rime riche" (identical rhyme) in Gower's poetry, focusing on the "abundance" of rime-riche couplets in "Confessio Amantis," and discussing a number of points of comparison and contrast with Chaucer's practice in his verse. Revised version:…

Analyzes the variety of lexical doublets in Mel, comparing them with parallel collocations in the French source and commenting on stylistic and semantic implications.

Considers such words as "private" and the meanings that are concerned with private and public life, especially in WBT, SHT, MilT, and MerT.

Examines KnT with special attention to Arcite's definition of love, presented with deep sympathy by the narrator--a sympathy infused, nonetheless, with a strong sense of despair. (In Japanese.)

Chaucer created a literary dialect that influenced writers centuries later. Elliott focuses on Chaucer's dialect, pronunciation, and grammar; Hardy's words and syntax; and Garner's rythms and cadences.

Tabulates and analyzes the scribal variants of modal auxiliaries in CT, commenting on the implications for understanding late-medieval English usage.

Comments on the ambiguities and implications of the ages of the protagonists in TC, considering evidence that indicates Troilus is "twenty or less," Criseyde, "several years older," and Pandarus, a "middle-aged trendy."

An analysis of reflexive verbs in Chaucer within the case grammar framework. It shows the possibility of the semantic motivation of the reflexive pronoun and of a finer distinction of reflexivity in terms of the semantic relationship among the verb,…

Studies Chaucer's GP description of the Prioress, focusing on how he uses and adapts conventions of romance, style, and detail to produce humor.

Distinguishes between Chaucer the poet and Chaucer the pilgrim, and considers the "singularities" of Mel as clues to the "author's intention," reading the Tale as a self-aware "travesty" of Chaucer's relation with his wife, Philippa.

Inculdes comments on the "somnium animale" in classical and medieval literature, particularly Chaucer's dream poetry. Explores the possibility that the dream in PF influenced Mercutio's dream of Mab in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet."

Describes and assesses Chaucer's depictions of the expressions and psychology of love in TC, attending to diction, tone, style, and various uses and developments of the conventions of French and Italian love poetry. Focuses on the poet's successful…

Explores the semantic operation of words drawn from the language of courtly love, following J. R. Frith's theory of linguistic context and collocation, and discussing examples from TC.