Re: Natlag: Middle English impersonal verbs

> "Natlag"?  Is that a slowness in acquiring one's native
language? :)
>
It might be the diff between thought and finger-motion when I'm
keying - gets worse the older I get. :-%

> Are you looking for an explanation of the construct or a
> list of the verbs which were impersonal?  The only ones I
> know offhand are some that appear in The Canterbury Tales:
> in the present tense,  deigneth, liketh, nedeth, remembreth,
> reweth; in the past tense, mette, moste, oughte.
My apology for being unclear. I'm looking for a list of them.

> A Google search may be helpful.  For a printed reference,
> Burrow and Turville-Petre's _A_Book_of_Middle_English_ is
> reportedly quite good.
Yeah, I tried GOOGLE before I posted here: it led me to some great
descriptions of how the impersonal worked in OE & ME, and even a ref
to a hypothesis on how OE's impersonal grew out of Proto-IE.

I'll see if I can get my hands on a copy of the book you recommended.

Thanks.