The Expanded Form in Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Kobayashi, Ayako.
The Expanded Form in Chaucer
- Published
- Kinshiro Oshitari et al., eds. Philologia Anglica (Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1988), pp. 162-75.
- Description
- Chaucer's expanded forms are mostly adjectival, as in Old English, though many of them are used appositively with intervening modifiers. He also uses them with verbs denoting durability or knowledge and with the point-action verbs, probably for stylistic, rhythmic, or metrical reasons.
- Alternative Title
- Philologia Anglica.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.