Notes on the Tenses in "The Romaunt of the Rose"-A and the Original Text.

Author / Editor
Iwakuni, Tomoko.

Title
Notes on the Tenses in "The Romaunt of the Rose"-A and the Original Text.

Published
Hideshi Ohno, Kazuho Mizuno, and Osamu Imabayashi, eds. The Pleasure of English Language and Literature: A Festschrift for Akiyuki Jimura (Hiroshima: Keisuisha, 2018), pp. 79-93.

Description
Closely compares the opening portion of Rom with its French source and points out that Chaucer's translations of verb tenses are faithful to the original French text. Suggests Chaucer may have attempted to express a combination of the preterit and imperfect tenses as well as the French "subjonctif," neither of which has a perfect counterpart in English.

Alternative Title
The Pleasure of English Language and Literature

Chaucer Subjects
Romaunt of the Rose
Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations
Language and Word Studies