[The Transition from the Impersonal to the Personal Construction in English--with Reference to Data Analysis of the Sentences that Contain Infinitives]

Author / Editor
Park, Sae-gon.

Title
[The Transition from the Impersonal to the Personal Construction in English--with Reference to Data Analysis of the Sentences that Contain Infinitives]

Published
Journal of English Language and Literature 41 (1995): 827-45

Description
Draws examples from "Beowulf" and CT to demonstrate transition in impersonal constructions in the Middle English period, especially evident in uses of the expletive "it" with an infinitive ("It happed hym to ride").
In Korean with English abstract.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.