Explaining the Disappearance of Extinct Words Associated with the Concept 'Dream'
- Author / Editor
- Nohara, Yasuhiro.
Explaining the Disappearance of Extinct Words Associated with the Concept 'Dream'
- Published
- English Review (Momoyama Gakuin University) 8 (1993): 71-87.
- Description
- Argues that function shifts and the development of impersonal constructions reduced the nouns and verbs associated with dreaming in the development of English. Nohara focuses on the loss of forms of "sweven" and "meten" from Middle English, drawing examples primarily from Chaucer.
- In Japanese, with English abstract.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies