Col-blak and snow-whit: Chaucer's Noun-Adjective Compounds

Author / Editor
Chapman, Don.

Title
Col-blak and snow-whit: Chaucer's Noun-Adjective Compounds

Published
Jacek Fisiak, ed. Studies in English Historical Linguistics and Philology: A Festschrift for Akio Oizumi Studies in English Language and Literature, no. 2 (Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, 2002), pp. 37-49.

Description
Describes the variety of ways Chaucer uses noun-adjective compounds to produce "strong connotations or heightened effects."

Alternative Title
Studies in English Historical Linguistics and Philology: A Festschrift for Akio Oizumi.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.