Middle English Adverbs of Affirming
- Author / Editor
- Shimogasa, Tokuji.
Middle English Adverbs of Affirming
- Published
- Hiroshima Studies in English Language and Literature 25 (1980): 13-28.
- Description
- Several Middle English adverbs of affirmation ("ywis," "wytterly," "sikerly," and "verayment") found in many medieval romances and in many of Chaucer's works function primarily as words of elaboration.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.