The Numerals in Chaucer

Author / Editor
Nohara, Yasuhiro.

Title
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