On the Productivity of the Suffixes -ness and -ity : The Case of Chaucer

Author / Editor
Yonekura, Hiroshi.

Title
On the Productivity of the Suffixes -ness and -ity : The Case of Chaucer

Published
Jacek Fisiak and Akio Oizumi, eds. English Historical Linguistics and Philology in Japan (Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1998), pp. 439-53.

Description
Summarizes the distribution of the two suffixes and compares their semantic functions. A revision of an essay originally published in "Studies in Modern English 19 (1993): 1-255.

Alternative Title
English Historical Linguistics and Philology in Japan.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.