Preface
Abbreviations
PART I: SYNTACTIC STUDIES
1. The progressive form
1.1 Participial adjective vs. participle
1.2 Verbs used in the progressive form: classification
1.3 Stative verbs
1.4 Non-stative verbs
1.5 Doubtful cases
1.6 Type: There was many a bird singing
1.7 BEN-ellipsis
1.8 The meaning of the progressive
1.9 Frequency and significance of the progressive in Chaucer
2. The perfect form
2.1 BEN-perfect vs. HAVEN-perfect
2.2 Present perfect: description
2.3 Syntactic characterization of the present perfect
2.4 Past perfect
2.5 Perfect infinitive
2.6 Ellipsis
3. Functions of the present participle
3.1 Attributive use
3.2 Predicative use
3.3 Free adjunct
4. Functions of the past participle
4.1 The past participle for the infinitive
4.2 Roles of the preverbal y-
PART II: LEXICAL AND TEXTLINGUISTIC STUDIES
5. Textlinguistic analyses of the Canterbury Tales
5.1 Theoretical framework
5.2 Analysis of the Miller's Tale
5.3 Analysis of the Reeve's Tale
5.4 Analysis of the Pardoner's Tale
6. Use and meanings of WENEN
6.1 Complementary distribution
6.2 Evidence
6.3 Comparison with other verbs of thinking
6.4 Point of view
6.5 Counterexamples? - negation
6.6 Backgrounding of the counterfactual force
6.7 Use of WENEN in various works
6.8 Conclusion
6.9 Application to Chaucer's works
7. A search for Chaucer's comedy
7.1 Definitions of tragedy and comedy
7.2 Ascent and descent
7.3 Fortune
7.4 Chaucer's “comedy"
7.5 How did Chaucer evaluate NPT?
7.6 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Masayuki Higuchi (1996) Studies in Chaucer's English (Eichosha) の草稿を基に編集しなおしたもの。