Neologisms in Chaucer's 'Boece'

Author / Editor
Chapman, Don.

Title
Neologisms in Chaucer's 'Boece'

Published
Ian Lancashire, ed. Computer-Based Chaucer Studies (Toronto: Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, 1993), pp. 87-98.

Description
Computer-assisted analysis of the 276 neologisms in Bo produces statistical descriptions of their source languages,their distribution in Bo, and their occurrences in other works by Chaucer. The analysis underpins surmises about the range and nature of Boethius's influence on Chaucer.

Alternative Title
Computer-Based Chaucer Studies.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.
Boece.
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.