The Middle English Subject-Verb Cluster
- Author / Editor
- MacLeish, Andrew.
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