'-less' words in Chaucer

Author / Editor
Shimogasa, Tokuji.

Title
'-less' words in Chaucer

Published
A Collection of Essays in Honour of Professor Hiroshige Yoshida. (Shinozaki Shorin Press, 1980), pp. 30-43.

Description
Chaucer's "-less" words deserve our special consideration. Some ninety percent of all the "less" words occur in verse. Though the total frequency is not so high, they may be said to fulfill an important function seen from a syntactical, stylistical, rhythmical, metrical and rhetorical viewpoint in Chaucer's poetry-making.

Alternative Title
A Collection of Essays in Honour of Professor Hiroshige Yoshida.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.
Style and Versification.