The Development of long in Early Modern English

Impersonal Verbs of Desire in Focus

Bibliographic Data

ID20451978
AuthorsNoelia Chao-Castro (Universidade de Vigo, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume43
Issue1
Pages110-132
Publication date2021-06-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAtlantis Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0210-6124 • E-ISSN: 1989-6840
PublisherAEDEAN (Asociacion Espanola de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.28914/atlantis-2021-43.1.07
OpenAlexW3177054668
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited15

The class of English verbs of Desire in Present-Day English comprises verbs such as long or thirst, several of which are attested in earlier English in impersonal constructions characterised by the lack of a grammatical subject. In English, the impersonal construction decreased in frequency between 1400 and 1500, and effectively went out of use during the sixteenth century. Previous research has suggested that there is a need for a corpus-based study of not just Middle English, but also Early Modern English, in order to explore the different path(s) of development followed by individual impersonal verbs. The present article, therefore, investigates the development of the impersonal verb long (

Early Modern English · English grammar · Grammar · Linguistics · Middle English · Modal verb · Old English · Verb · Computer Science · Gender Studies in Language · History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Psychology

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