Arrangements of Two or More Attributive Adjectives in Chaucer (1).

Author / Editor
Miura, Tsuneshi.

Title
Arrangements of Two or More Attributive Adjectives in Chaucer (1).

Published
Anglica (Osaka) 6 (1966): 1-23.

Description
Describes Chaucer's arrangements of multiple adjectives (preposed, postposed, and combined), contrasting his practice with other Middle English writers, and exploring the poetic value of his usage, suggesting that he seems to have been "the writer richest in the device of arranging adjectives throughout the history of the English language." Continued in "Arrangements of Two or More Attributive Adjectives in Chaucer (2)," Kobe Miscellany 6 (1972): 13-31 [no Description available].

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
Style and Versification