Chaucerにおけるいわゆる「非人称構文」について

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This article concerns the so-called Impersonal Structure in Chaucer (1340-1400), concentrating on the historical transition of 'Impersonal' to 'Personal Structure'. There used to be three types in Chaucerian Age as follows: TYPE I: Structures With No Subject TYPE II: Structures With the Formal Subject 'It' TYPE III: Structures With Personal Subject In TYPE I, 'Word Order' is 'Dative or Accusative Pronoun+Verb' or 'Adverbial Phrases+ Verb'. In TYPE II, 'Word Order' is 'It+Verb+Prepositional Prases'. In TYPE III, 'Word Order' is 'Personal Subject+Verb'. The aim of this article is to explain why this transition has occurred. As 'Word Order' has been regarded as important in Modern English, TYPE I sentences, as they were, seemed to be ungrammatical and finally were obsolete though we still have some exceptions. So TYPE II facilitated some of TYPE I and the others of TYPE I have been taken by TYPE III. And I do believe the fact that objective pronoun 'you' took the place of the subjective 'ye' and that 'you' were mistaken for the subject in the sentence like "...if you please." has influenced its transition (TYPE I to TYPE III).
桃山学院大学の論文
2000-12-20