The Gerund in Chaucer, with Special Reference to Its Verbal Character
- Author / Editor
- Tajima, Matsuji.
The Gerund in Chaucer, with Special Reference to Its Verbal Character
- Published
- Jacek Fisiak and Akio Oizumi, eds. English Historical Linguistics and Philology in Japan (Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1998), pp. 323-39.
- Description
- Like most of his contemporaries, Chaucer used gerunds primarily as nominals. Yet his usage is marked by a penchant for "determiner + gerund + 'of'-adjunct" and by an unusual number of gerunds with verbal properties, especially in his prose.
- A revision of an essay originally published in "Poetica" (Tokyo) 21-22 (1985).
- Alternative Title
- English Historical Linguistics and Philology in Japan.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.