The Roles of ME Preverbal 'y-', with Special Reference to Chaucer's English
- Author / Editor
- Higuchi, Masayuki.
The Roles of ME Preverbal 'y-', with Special Reference to Chaucer's English
- Published
- Journal of English Linguistics 26 (1998): 199-208.
- Description
- In Chaucer's prose, where usage is unaffected by metrical considerations, the presence or absence of the "y-" prefix in past participles is not random. Chaucer uses "y-" for stylistic variations and to convert nouns to verbs, and it almost always occurs in grammatical environments in which the participle has verbal rather than adjectival force.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.