A History of English Reflexive Pronouns: Person, "Self," and Interpretability
- Author / Editor
- van Gelderen, Elly.
A History of English Reflexive Pronouns: Person, "Self," and Interpretability
- Published
- Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2000.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 277 pp.
- Series
- Linguistics Today, no. 39.
- Description
- Diachronic analysis of how reflexive pronouns follow the "transformation of English from a synthetic to an analytic language," particularly their increase in "Uninterpretable features." Includes a section on Chaucer's reflexive pronouns (pp. 86-91) and describes usage of reflexive pronouns in Old, Middle, and Modern English.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies