「夢」に関連する語の推移について
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There were many words which existed in Old English and Middle English that became archaic or have disappeared in Modern English. Words that have expressed the concept DREAM are not exceptional. Geoffrey Chaucer used three nouns: avisioun, sweven, and dreem, and two verbs: dreme and meten, to express DREAM. (And sweven was also used as a verb at the age of Chaucer.) Avisioun may have evolved into the word vision, and sweven has become archaic in Modern English. Both of these verbs, sweven and meten, were not entered in modern dictionaries. Finally, dream, which did not originally mean DREAM in old English, has come to be used as a noun as well as a verb in Modern English. The aim of this article is to explain why this has occurred. I believe two linguistic phenomena, 'Transition from Impersonal Structure to Personal Structure' and 'Functional Shift' have influenced this change.
- 桃山学院大学の論文
- 1993-12-20
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