Chaucer's Contribution to the English Vocabulary: A Chronological Survey of French Loan-Words
- Author / Editor
- Dor, Juliette De Caluwe.
Chaucer's Contribution to the English Vocabulary: A Chronological Survey of French Loan-Words
- Published
- North-Western European Language Evolution 2 (1983): 73-91.
- Description
- Classifies French conversational loan words (A-D) in CT by frequency, grammatical nature, and date of first occurrence. Only thirty-nine words are used first by Chaucer, who innovates less than previously thought.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.