Exclamations in Late Middle English
- Author / Editor
- Taavitsainen, Irma.
Exclamations in Late Middle English
- Published
- Jacek Fisiak, ed. Studies in Middle English Linguistics (Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997), pp. 573-607.
- Description
- Statistical analysis of Middle English exclamations in several literary modes and genres. Exclamations are a marker of fiction, and interjections are "particularly frequent" in Chaucer's works.
- Alternative Title
- Studies in Middle English Linguistics.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.