Email this article 
The Syntactic Aspect of G. Chaucer’s Language
- Authors: Pavlova E.B.1
-
Affiliations:
- Moscow State Linguistic University
- Issue: No 4(885) (2024)
- Pages: 96-103
- Section: Linguistics
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2542-2197/article/view/306526
- ID: 306526
Cite item
Abstract
The article looks into the syntactic peculiarities of G. Chaucer’s language. The order of words in “The Canterbury Tales” possesses considerable positional freedom, but, at the same time, is becoming more fixed. An important feature of Chaucer’s language is the use of compound nominal and verbal (modal and aspective) predicates. The language of “The Canterbury Tales” is characterized by a variety of complex sentences with a wide range of connectives. Special attention is paid to parenthetic expressions as means of establishing anaphoric relations.
Keywords
About the authors
Elena Borisovna Pavlova
Moscow State Linguistic University
Author for correspondence.
Email: lena.pavlova@live.ru
PhD (Philology), Associate Professor, Assistant Professor at the Department of Grammar and History of the English Language, Faculty of the English language
Russian FederationReferences
- Rastorgueva, T.A. (1983) A History of English. Moscow: Vyṡṡaja ṡkola.
- Denison, D. (1993) English Historical Syntax: Verbal Constructions. London: Longman.
- Ivanova, I.P (1973). Xrestomatiya po istorii anglijskogo yazy`ka = A reader in the history of English: A handbook for students of pedagogical faculties. Leningrad: Prosveshhenie. (In Russ.)
- Smirnickij, А.I. (1998) Drevneanglijskij yazy`= The old English language. Moscow: The Publishing House of Moscow State University (In Russ.)
Supplementary files
