쵸서의 英語에 나타난 强變化1類動詞의 硏究 = A Study on the Strong Verbs of Class Ⅰ in Chaucer's English

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The purpose of this article is to prove the hypothesis that the strong verbs of class Ⅰ in Chaucer's English did not change to weak verbs as in the other works of the same period. The results of investigation obtained through my research and analysis of the 34 strong verbs of class Ⅰ in The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer edited by F. N. Robinson are as follow.
In Chaucer's English there were 34 strong verbs of the class Ⅰ of which 20 verbs had strong forms, 2 verbs having weak form besides strong form, and 5 verbs chide, hyde, slitte, syke, swyve had only weak forms. They were originally weak verbs in OE but became strong verbs since Chaucer's time. The 5 verbs agryse, byte, dryve, stryve, wrye among 20 verbs began to have weak forms besides strong forms before or in Chaucer's time, but the 5 verbs had only strong forms in Chaucer's English so that the strong verbs of class Ⅰ in Chaucer's English kept relatively the good ablaut series in Chaucer's English. My research indicates that there were 52 past participle forms in Chaucer's English and of them 34 forms (35%) had prefix (i- or y-). This shows that Wright's suggestion (1928 : 177) that the prefix ??e-, later i-or y- of the past participle was rarely inflected in early ME is wrong.