Chaucer's Contribution to the English Vocabulary: A Chronological Survey of French Loan-Words

Author / Editor
Dor, Juliette De Caluwe.

Title
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.