Negation in Fragments A, B, and C of the Hunter Manuscript of 'The Romaunt of the Rose'

Author / Editor
Iyeiri, Yoko.

Title
Negation in Fragments A, B, and C of the Hunter Manuscript of 'The Romaunt of the Rose'

Published
Merja Kytö, John Scahill, and Harumi Tanabe, eds. Language Change and Variation from Old English to Late Modern English: A Festschrift for Minoji Akimoto (New York: Peter Lang, 2010), pp. 79-101.

Description
Iyeiri analyzes the "various forms of negation" in the fragments of Rom, commenting on their implications for attribution. Fragment C is more like B than like the Chaucerian A in many of its forms of negation; hence, it is unlikely to be by Chaucer.

Contributor
Kytö, Merja, ed.
Scahill, John, ed.
Tanabe, Harumi, ed.

Alternative Title
Language Change and Variation from Old English to Late Modern English: A Festschrift for Minoji Akimoto.

Chaucer Subjects
Romaunt of the Rose.