The Romance Vocabulary of Chaucer's Romances

Author / Editor
Lay, Ethna Dempsey.

Title
The Romance Vocabulary of Chaucer's Romances

Published
Dissertation Abstracts International 58 (1998): 4667A.

Description
Using the electronic Glossarial Database of Middle English, Lay analyzes Chaucer's habits of combining native English vocabulary with Romance vocabulary in doublets and puns, a reflection of his bilingual imagination.
Explores the tradition of such collocations in rhetorical tradition and compares Chaucer's usage with that of analogous English and Continental narratives.

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