著者

西村 政人 ニシムラ マサヒト Masahito Nishimura

雑誌

雲雀野 = The Lark Hill

巻号頁・発行日

vol.30, pp.11-26, 2008

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Boccaccio's Il Filostrato is essential for studying Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. However, while reading this work, it was apparent that there are many verbs whose conjugations are different from those in contemporary Italian. The purpose of this paper is to clarify the conjugations of the verbs used in Il Filostrato. First, the present author discusses the overall features of the Italian verbs that appear in this work from both morphologic and syntactic viewpoints. Second, the author deals with the verbs, avere and essere, and makes their special conjugations clear. Part of the conclusions in this paper are stated below. 1. Il Filostrato is a poetic work. Therefore, poetic rules affect the conjugations of the Italian verbs. 2. Boccaccio uses special conjugations if verbs are placed at the end of the line. 3. Different conjugations of avere and essere can be observed in the future, imperfect, past historic, present subjunctive and present conditional tenses.