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This article discusses the relation between impersonal constructions and the reflexive use of psych verbs of the  admire -type ( Levin 1993 ) copied from Old French to Middle English. The outset of the study is an observation made by  van der Gaaf (1904)  which was commented on by  Fischer (1992)  concerning the reflexive use of verbs like  remembren  (Old French  remembrer ) in the course of the development of impersonal constructions to personal constructions. My aim is to answer the following questions: First, was the reflexive use of verbs copied from Old French new to the Middle English system? Second, what is the syntactic and semantic relation between ME impersonal and OF reflexive constructions? I will first examine the reflexive construction in Old English and Old French to answer the first question. I will then deal with the second question taking a closer look at both constructions in Middle English. Supported by lexicon-based and corpus-based small-scale studies of the psych verb  remembren  I will provide an analysis of the syntactic and semantic properties of the verb in both constructions and show that what they have in common is an intransitive structure where the subject is an  experiencer , and middle semantics. I will finally address possible effects of language contact through translations, before I conclude.

Impersonal and reflexive uses of Middle English psych verbs under contact influence with Old French