The Middle English Subject-Verb Cluster

Author / Editor
MacLeish, Andrew.

Title
The Middle English Subject-Verb Cluster

Published
The Hague: Mouton, 1969

Physical Description
276 pp.

Series
Janua Linguarum.

Description
Describes, tabulates, and analyzes the "word-order patterns in the Subject-Verb cluster in twelve texts of Late East Midland prose and poetry, 1369-1400," including BD, KnT, TC (Book 5), GP, PardT, NPT, ParsT, Mel, and Astr, as well as texts by Wyclif, Usk, and an anonymous author. Distinguishes between patterns in prose and poetry and between "common" and "uncommon" patterns in "subjects, auxiliaries, finite verbs, and participles as well as those forms which are contained within the actor-action cluster in any kind of permutation: accusative objects, dative and periphrastic indirect objects, and adverbs."

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies