New Impersonal Verbs in Some Late Fourteenth-Century English Texts

Author / Editor
Miura, Ayumi

Title
New Impersonal Verbs in Some Late Fourteenth-Century English Texts

Published
Masachiyo Amano, Michiko Ogura, and Masayuki Ohkado, eds. Historical Englishes in Varieties of Texts and Contexts: The Global COE Programme, International Conference 2007 (New York and Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2008), pp. 187-200.

Description
Identifies and tabulates "new" impersonal verbs used by Chaucer, Gower, Langland, and the Gawain-poet, describing factors that affected their usage, especially imitation of Old French forms.

Alternative Title
Historical Englishes in Varieties of Texts and Contexts: The Global COE Programme, International Conference 2007

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies