Impersonal Constructions and Narrative Structure in Chaucer

Author / Editor
Jimura, Akiyuki.

Title
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