Chaucer's Romance Vocabulary.
- Author/Editor
- Mersand, Joseph.
- Title
- Chaucer's Romance Vocabulary.
- Published
- Mersand, Joseph. Chaucer's Romance Vocabulary, New York: Comet, 1939, pp. 8, 10, 17-18, 21, 26, 30, 44-45, 120, 136.
- Review
- Argues contra Dr. Johnson (1755) that chronology of imported words matters in relating the diction of Gower and Chaucer; contra Fernald (1921) that Gower has a smaller Romance vocabulary than does Chaucer; contra Marsh (1885) that Gower and Chaucer borrow many kinds of French words. Tabulates Romance words that Gower and Chaucer have in common, arguing basically that Chaucer has a larger and much more varied Romance vocabulary than does Gower and that their languages are quite unlike as a result. [RFY1981].
- Date
- 1939
- Gower Subjects
- Language and Word Studies