Chaucer's Untransposable Binomials

Author / Editor
Potter, Simeon.

Title
Chaucer's Untransposable Binomials

Published
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 73 (1972): 309-14.

Description
Tallies and comments upon various irreversible paired words in Chaucer's works (e.g., "joy and bliss," "word and dede," wele and wo," etc.), observing where modern usages vary or continue medieval practices.

Alternative Title
"Studies Presented to Tauno Mustanoja on the Occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday."

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies