Chaucer's Compound Nouns : Patterns and Productivity
- Author / Editor
- Yonekura, Hiroshi.
Chaucer's Compound Nouns : Patterns and Productivity
- Published
- Raymond Hickey and Stanislaw Puppel, eds. Language History and Linguistic Modelling: A Festschrift for Jacek Fisiak on His 60th Birthday. 2 Vols. (Berlin and New York: Mouton, 1997), 1:229-48.
- Description
- Documents that compounding was an active process of word formation in Middle English, tabulating Chaucer's compound words and showing that he favored combinations of two Old English nouns rather than combining a noun with another word form or Old English with French.
- Alternative Title
- Language History and Linguistic Modelling: A Festschrift for Jacek Fisiak on His 60th Birthday.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.