Chaucer's Derivational Morphemes Revisited

Author / Editor
Dor, Juliette De Caluwe.

Title
Chaucer's Derivational Morphemes Revisited

Published
Andre Crepin, ed. Linguistic and Stylistic Studies in Medieval English. Publications de l'Association des Medievistes de l'Ensignement Superieur 10. (Paris, 1984): pp. 63-79.

Description
Reconsiders Fisiak's survey of Chaucer's derivational affixes in function of her corpus of French loan words in the conversational sections of CT. Distinguishes between wholesale borrowings and French words onto which morphemes had been attached, identifying affix as French or native.

Contributor
Crepin, Andre, ed.

Alternative Title
Linguistic and Stylistic Studies in Medieval English.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.