Chaucer's Syntactic Variants and What They Tell Us
- Author / Editor
- Ono, Shigeru.
Chaucer's Syntactic Variants and What They Tell Us
- Published
- Jacek Fisiak, ed. Studies in English Historical Linguistics and Philology: A Festschrift for Akio Oizumi. Studies in English Language and Literature, no. 2 (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2002), pp. 405-17.
- Description
- Argues that scribes altered Chaucer's modal auxiliaries, dative verb constructions, infinitives, and negations, simplifying Chaucer's syntax and making his stylistic compactness apparent by contrast.
- Alternative Title
- Studies in English Historical Linguistics and Philology: A Festschrift for Akio Oizumi.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Manuscripts and Textual Studies.
- Language and Word Studies.