Noun+Noun Compounds in the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer

Author / Editor
Smith, Charles Campbell.

Title
Noun+Noun Compounds in the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer

Published
DAI 32.10 (1972): 5768A.

Description
Proposes a method for classifying noun-plus-noun compounds and compiles all such compounds in Chaucer's works, showing that, with one exception, modern types of compounds were already in use in Chaucer's Middle English.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies