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- Title
HAVE DO MAKE AND HAVE DO AND MAKE IN THE PASTON LETTERS.
- Authors
Ogura, Michiko
- Abstract
The Middle English Dictionary cites some examples of "let do/did do/have do + infinitive" constructions, where the position of the infinitive can be occupied by a past participle, pre- terite, or to-infinitive. Besides the poem "Canterbury Tales" and "Confessio Amantis," the book "Paston Letters" of the fifteenth century characteristically have these constructions, especially "have do + p.p./pret./inf." Norman Davis seems not to share the opinion of regarding them as uneducated or uncultivated, but he ascribes Margaret Paston's use of do in general to her old-fashioned and/or provincial way of writing.
- Subjects
MIDDLE English literature; DAVIS, Norman; MIDDLE English language; ENCYCLOPEDIAS &; dictionaries; PASTON Letters
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2003, Vol 50, Issue 1, p8
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/nq/500008