On the Use of "lief" in Chaucer.

Author / Editor
Ohno, Hideshi.

Title
On the Use of "lief" in Chaucer.

Published
In Hideshi Ohno, Kazuho Mizuno, and Osamu Imabayashi, eds. The Pleasure of English Language and Literature: A Festschrift for Akiyuki Jimura (Hiroshima: Keisuisha, 2018), pp. 261-75.

Description
Investigates the difference in use and function between the "be" + "lief" and the "have" + "lief" constructions, and between these constructions and "like" and "list" in Chaucer's works.

Alternative Title
The Pleasure of English Language and Literature.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies