Movement Towards the Semantic Unity of the Modal Auxiliaries in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: The Fusion of Their Root and Epistemic Senses

Author / Editor
Nakao, Yoshiyuki.

Title
Movement Towards the Semantic Unity of the Modal Auxiliaries in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde: The Fusion of Their Root and Epistemic Senses

Published
Masahiko Kanno and others, eds. Medieval Heritage: Essays in Honour of Tadahiro Ikegami (Tokyo: Yushodo, 1997), pp. 441-54.

Description
Discusses the fusion of the root and epistemic senses of modal auxiliaries such as "mot" / "moste," "may" / "myghte," "shal" / "sholde," and "wol" / "wolde" in TC.
In Japanese.

Alternative Title
Medieval Heritage: Essays in Honour of Tadahiro Ikegami.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies.