The Word Pairs in Chaucer's Verse in Comparison with Those in His Prose

Author / Editor
Tani, Akinobu.

Title
The Word Pairs in Chaucer's Verse in Comparison with Those in His Prose

Published
John Ole Askedal, Ian Roberts, and Tomonori Matsushita, eds. Noam Chomsky and Language Descriptions (Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2010), pp. 149-68.

Description
Tani examines the word pairs or doublets in Fragment A of CT and those in Chaucer's prose texts. The pairs are used for rhyme and for generic and stylistic differentiation among verse texts.

Contributor
Askedal, John Ole, ed.
Matsushita, Tomonori, ed.

Alternative Title
Noam Chomsky and Language Descriptions.

Chaucer Subjects
Style and Versification.