Chapter 3. Middle English gan

Chapters in this book

1. I-XVI I
2. Chapter 1. “Mystery features” of Old and Middle English 1
3. Chapter 2. Conceptual background 29
4. Chapter 3. Middle English gan 67
5. Chapter 4. Middle and Early Modern English anon 85
6. Chapter 5. Old English episode boundary markers 115
7. Chapter 6. Middle English episode boundary markers 145
8. Chapter 7. Old English hwæt 181
9. Chapter 8. Middle English I gesse 211
10. Chapter 9. Concluding remarks 265
11. Appendices
12. Appendix A. Substantive studies of individual pragmatic markers in Modern English 279
13. Appendix B. Typologies of pragmatic markers in Modern English 282
14. Appendix C. Occurrences of gan in Troilus and Criseyde 285
15. Appendix D. Cooccurrence of adverbials with gan in Troilus and Criseyde 295
16. Appendix E. Episodic structure and occurrences of anon and gan in Book II of Troilus and Criseyde 297
17. Appendix F. Occurrences of anon in Books 6, 11, and 16 of Le morte d'Arthur 302
18. Appendix G. Bifel-constructions in The Canterbury tales 304
19. Appendix H. Bifel-constructions in Le morte d'Arthur 306
20. Appendix I. Preposed whan-clauses in “The Knight's tale” 309
21. Appendix J. Preposed whan-clauses in Book 16 of Le morte d'Arthur 311
22. Appendix K. First-person epistemic parentheticals in The Canterbury tales 313
23. Appendix L. First-person epistemic parentheticals in Troilus and Criseyde 319
24. Appendix M. Occurrences of God woot in The Canterbury tales 323
25. Appendix N. Occurrences of God woot in Troilus and Criseyde 327
26. Appendix O. Occurrences of trusteth me wel in The Canterbury tales 329
27. Notes 331
28. References 361
29. Index 405