The Derived Nominals, Gerunds, and Participles in Chaucer's English
- Author / Editor
- Emonds, Joseph.
The Derived Nominals, Gerunds, and Participles in Chaucer's English
- Published
- Braj B. Kachru, and others, eds. Issues in Linguistics: Papers in Honor of Henry and Renée Kahane (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973), pp. 185-93.
- Description
- Anatomizes Chaucer's uses of the "'ing'-morpheme," arguing that "Chaucer's dialect did not contain a gerund as a normal grammatical device" (even though examples exist) and that English "participles and derived nominal had become phonetically identical" by his time. Also comments on Chaucer's rare uses of progressives and the historical conflation of "ing" forms.
- Contributor
- Kachru, Braj B., and others, eds.
- Alternative Title
- Issues in Linguistics: Papers in Honor of Henry and Renée Kahane
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies