The Swearings in Chaucer.

Author / Editor
Murata, Yazaburo.

Title
The Swearings in Chaucer.

Published
In Kazuo Araki, and others, eds. Studies in English Grammar and Linguistics: A Miscellany in Honour of Takanobu Otsuka (Tokyo: Kenkyushi, 1958), pp. 289-99.

Description
Describes Chaucer's "power and limitations as a stylist," offering examples, and tabulating more extensively examples of oaths and swearing in Chaucer's works, including strong and weak oaths, wishes, and imprecations.

Contributor
Kazuo Araki, and others, eds.

Alternative Title
Studies in English Grammar and Linguistics: A Miscellany in Honour of Takanobu Otsuka.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
Style and Versificaation