caa a22 4500 378937596 CHVBK 20180305123644.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20040623xx s 000 0 eng 10.1515/ANGL.2003.535 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.1515/ANGL.2003.535 Ogura Michiko Chiba ‘Reflexive' and ‘Impersonal' Constructions in Medieval English [Elektronische Daten] [Michiko Ogura] In Old and Middle English, ‘reflexives' with coreferential pronouns alone and ‘reflexives' with self were both used frequently, showing a slight tinge of lexical and contextual restriction. ‘Impersonals' with dative/accusative (or genitive, though less frequent) pronouns appeared continuously throughout the medieval period, while personal expressions were sporadically seen in Old English and then ‘it V to/for Dat' constructions gradually increased in the number of occurrences. Further investigation should be made from a lexical-structural viewpoint in order to explain why ‘reflexives' and ‘impersonals' were preferred in Old English and kept in use up to late Middle English. In this paper I reexamine the uses of ‘reflexives' (§ 1) and ‘impersonals' (§ 2) in Old English, compare these constructions in the West Saxon Gospels with the corresponding constructions in the Later Version of the Wycliffite Bible (§ 3), and try to show that these constructions were the devices a language without a morphological middle voice marker had contrived for itself. © Max Niemeyer Verlag GmbH, Tübingen 2003 Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 121/4(2004-06-23), 535-556 0340-5222 121:4<535 2004 121 ANGL https://doi.org/10.1515/ANGL.2003.535 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1515/ANGL.2003.535 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Ogura Michiko Chiba NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG 121/4(2004-06-23), 535-556 0340-5222 121:4<535 2004 121 ANGL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter