The Influence of French and Other Languages on Chaucer's English

Author / Editor
Hirabayashi, Mikio.

Title
The Influence of French and Other Languages on Chaucer's English

Published
Daito Bunka Daigaku Kiyo, Jinbun Kagaku 42 (2004): 221-58.

Description
Argues that, despite the influence of French on the idioms, spelling, and pronunciation of Chaucer's English, the "basic structure of English as a Germanic language . . . remained intact." In Japanese, with English abstract.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies