The Morphological Legacy of French: Borrowed Suffixes on Native Bases in Middle English
- Author / Editor
- Miller, D. Gary.
The Morphological Legacy of French: Borrowed Suffixes on Native Bases in Middle English
- Published
- Diachronica 14 (2006): 233-64.
- Description
- Miller tallies a number of "hybrid derivatives" from before 1500, focusing on top-frequency suffixes. Examples and conclusions involve Chaucerian usage, including Chaucer's tendency to develop "non-technical hybrids" and to use "non-prestige French affixes on native English bases" rather than to apply "abstract suffixes on bases of lower register."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.