Studies in Chaucer's English
- Author / Editor
- Higuchi, Masayuki.
Studies in Chaucer's English
- Published
- Tokyo : Eichosha, 1996.
- Physical Description
- viii, 506 pp.
- Description
- A descriptive approach to Chaucer's language, including the syntax of his progressive and perfect verbal forms and the functions of his present and past participles. Also includes lexical analysis of MilT (focus on "pryvetee"), RvT ("bigylen"), and PardT ("deeth"); descriptions of Chaucer's uses and meanings of "wenen"; and an argument that NPT is Chaucer's quintessential comedy, defined here as an ascent in fortune. Six of seven chapters are revisions of previously published material; the description of the perfect form is newly published.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies.
- Miller and His Tale.
- Reeve and His Tale.
- Pardoner and His Tale.
- Nun's Priest and His Tale.