The Semantics of Chaucer's Moot / Moste: A Focus on Its External Causals

Author / Editor
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.

Title
The Semantics of Chaucer's Moot / Moste: A Focus on Its External Causals

Published
Yukio Oba et al., eds. Currents in Linguistic Research: A Festschrift for Professor Kazuyuki Yamamoto on the Occasion of His Retirement from Yamaguchi University. Tokyo: Kaitakusha, 1999, pp. 231-46.

Description
Discusses external causals, one of the pragmatic features in the use of Chaucer's moot / moste. Clarifies the fusion of fate, divine intervention, and the speaker's subjective factors.

Alternative Title
Currents in Linguistic Research: A Festschrift for Professor Kazuyuki Yamamoto on the Occasion of His Retirement from Yamaguchi University.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.