The Numerals in Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Nohara, Yasuhiro.
The Numerals in Chaucer
- Published
- English Review (Momoyama Gakuin University) 10 (1995): 41-65.
- Description
- Surveys the verbal representation of numerals in Chaucer and elsewhere in Middle English and comments on the Germanic basis of composite representations (e.g., "four and twenty") and development of French-influenced forms (e.g., "twenty-four"). Chaucer relies heavily on composite representations.
- In Japanese, with English abstract.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies