New Impersonal Verbs in Some Late Fourteenth-Century English Texts
- Author / Editor
- Miura, Ayumi
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