The Interpretation of Troilus and Criseyde 3.587: 'syn I moste on yow triste'

Author / Editor
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.

Title
The Interpretation of Troilus and Criseyde 3.587: 'syn I moste on yow triste'

Published
Michiko Ogura, ed. Textual and Contextual Studies in Medieval English: Towards the Reunion of Linguistics and Philology (Frankfurt am Main, 2006), pp. 51-73.

Description
Nakao assesses Criseyde's comment on trusting Pandarus (TC 3.587) as ambiguous, considering "phonological, morphological, lexical/collocational, syntactic and pragmatic" aspects of Chaucer's use of "moste" as an auxiliary and an adverb.

Alternative Title
Textual and Contextual Studies in Medieval English: Towards the Reunion of Linguistics and Philology.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.
Troilus and Criseyde.