Chaucer's Use of the Demonstrative
- Author / Editor
- Smith, Jeremy J.
Chaucer's Use of the Demonstrative
- Published
- English Studies 93 (2012): 593-603
- Description
- Discusses Chaucer's use of "this" (e.g., "this carpenter," "this sely man," etc.). Replaces its usual explanation as a colloquialism with a discussion of the changing meaning of demonstrative "this"/"that" from Old English onward and applies this to several lines in PardPT.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Pardoner and His Tale
- Language and Word Studies