Chaucer's Use of "Gin" and "Do."

Description: Studies Chaucer's uses of "gan" and "do" with infinitive forms, tracing the history of the usage in English and providing statistics about Chaucer's uses and their relative chronologies. In Chaucer's works, "gan" is generally periphrastic and used for purposes of rhyme and meter; "do," on the other hand, is meaningful, often involving causation, although also used prosodically as well.