Numerals and Intensive Adverbs in Chaucer

Author / Editor
Nohara, Yasuhiro.

Title
Numerals and Intensive Adverbs in Chaucer

Published
English Review (Momoyama Gakuin University) 11 (1996): 27-47.

Description
Argues that the intensive use of "wel" in "wel nyne and twenty" (GP 24) helps account for the apparent discrepancy between the phrase and the number of pilgrims in CT.
In Japanese, with English abstract.

Chaucer Subjects
General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales