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Of the Use of the Negative by Chaucer, with particular reference to the particlene

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Charles W. Kent
Charles W. Kent*
Affiliation:
Professor of English and Modern Languages in the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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Extract

It is well known that two kinds of ne are present in Chaucer, which are written alike in the manuscripts. These two particles, however, must not be confounded. One of them is ne (neque) and the other is ne (non). Compare Old French ne and né (=ni).

Type
Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , 1890 , pp. 109 - 144
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1890

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