Chaucer's Use of 'gan': Some Recent Studies
- Author / Editor
- Mustanoja, Tauno F.
Chaucer's Use of 'gan': Some Recent Studies
- Published
- Middle English Studies Presented to Norman Davis in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 59-64.
- Description
- The controversial "gan" periphrasis occurs almost exclusively in rhymed poetry, generally to put the infinitive into rhyming position.
- Alternative Title
- Middle English Studies Presented to Norman Davis in Honour of His Seventieth Birthday.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.