Nonce Words in Chaucer's Boece
- Author / Editor
- Machan, Tim William.
Nonce Words in Chaucer's Boece
- Published
- A. N. Doane and others, eds. Old English and New: Essays in Language and Linguistics in Honor of Frederic G. Cassidy (New York: Garland, 1992), pp. 111-24.
- Description
- Explores Chaucer's lexical and stylistic experimentation in Bo, assessing how its 516 different words reflect the philosophical content of the original and a desire for lexical variety.
- Contributor
- Doane, A. N. and others, eds.
- Alternative Title
- Old English and New: Essays in Language and Linguistics in Honor of Frederic G. Cassidy.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Boece.
- Language and Word Studies.