The Modals Again in the Light of Historical and Cross-Linguistic Evidence
- Author / Editor
- De la Cruz, Juan Manuel.
The Modals Again in the Light of Historical and Cross-Linguistic Evidence
- Published
- Francisco Fernandez, Miguel Fuster, and Juan Jose Calvo, eds. English Historical Linguistics, 1992 (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1994), pp. 145-56.
- Description
- The co-occurence of modals of the type "I shall may go" and participial modal constructions of the type "I have wold" in Chaucer's Bo helps us understand the practical absence of them in post-Medieval English. Through a three-hundred-year process, the bulk of English verbs separated from the modals.
- Alternative Title
- English Historical Linguistics, 1992.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.
- Boece.