On the Productivity of the Suffixes -ness and -ity : The Case of Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Yonekura, Hiroshi.
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.