Impersonal Constructions and Narrative Structure in Chaucer
- Author / Editor
- Jimura, Akiyuki.
Impersonal Constructions and Narrative Structure in Chaucer
- Published
- Osamu Imahayashi, Yoshiyuki Nakao, and Michiko Ogura, eds. Aspects of the History of the English Language and Literature: Selected Papers Read at SHELL 2009, Hiroshima (New York; Peter Lang, 2010),, pp. 93-100.
- Description
- Jimura cites instances of impersonal constructions in TC and KnT in which verbs of "occurrence or happening" (e.g., "befal," "hap") are used to present important events and to suggest inevitability.
- Alternative Title
- Aspects of the History of the English Language and Literature: Selected Papers Read at SHELL 2009, Hiroshima.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
- Knight and His Tale
- Troilus and Criseyde