Chaucer's Multi-Word Verbs: An Historical Introduction and Illustrative Sample
- Author / Editor
- Besserman, Lawrence [L.]
Chaucer's Multi-Word Verbs: An Historical Introduction and Illustrative Sample
- Published
- North-Western European Language Evolution 34 (1998): 99-153.
- Description
- Historical assessment of Chaucer's multi-word (or phrasal) verbs, assessing the syntax and semantics of such verbs, the drift to post-positioning of the particles in these verbs (e.g., "wente forth" rather than "forth wente"), and the effects of meter on the use of the verbs.
- Includes as an appendix an exhaustive list of Chaucer's multi-word verbs containing the particles, "about," "away," "out," "Down," and "up."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.