Traditional English? Chaucerian Methods of Word-Formation

Author / Editor
Horobin, Simon.

Title
Traditional English? Chaucerian Methods of Word-Formation

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 110 (2009): 141-57.

Description
Horobin exemplifies how Chaucer used traditional methods of word formation to expand English vocabulary, creating new words and meaning by adding prefixes and suffixes, shifting grammatical function, and compounding words.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.