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Verbs of Motion in Medieval English
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Few studies have been made on Old English verbs of motion after Weman (1933). Verbs of motion are ordinary words, for which cognates can be found among Germanic languages, but the choice of words as renderings of the Latin verbs can be different. This piece of work presents various aspects of the verbs which, basically denoting coming and going, have shown diachronic changes morphologically, semantically and syntactically. Such Modern English expressions as spring has come, Come to me, he shall arrive, he began to speak, he turned around, she goes in and she took her way could be said in Old English as sumor is gecumen, Gang me, he becymd, he ongan sprecan, he wende him, heo ingad and heo nam (hire) weg. Chapters and sections are devoted to such phenomena as verbs of motion unexpressed, rivalry among synonyms like gan and faran, contrastive uses between cuman and gan, reflexive and 'impersonal' constructions, prefixed verbs and verb-particle combinations like ingan and gan inn, phrasal expressions like weg niman, auxiliaries like onginnan and gewitan, the perfective use of 'beon/wesan + past participle', and verbs of motion borrowed from Old French and Old Norse. The investigation covers verse, prose and glosses of Old English, transitional, and Middle English periods. Appendices are given to help readers for further uses of the material.MICHIKO OGURA is Professor English at Chiba University, Japan.
Boydell & Brewer; November 2002
175 pages; ISBN 9781846151651
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