Presque vu XXXIV

9th December 2007 with 1 Comment

The term, functional shift, refers to the way one part of speech is made to serve another; often a verb shifting or altering its nature to become a noun. The line in King Lear for example, where Edgar compares himself to the king: “He childed as I fathered”, sees nouns shifting to verbs. There are [...]

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