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ISBN: 3110810301 9783110810301 3110167077 9783110167078 Year: 2011 Volume: 129 Publisher: Berlin Boston
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ISBN: 9789027248428 9789027273574 9789027248329 9789027287793 902727357X 1283521539 9781283521536 9027287791 902724832X 9027248427 128289577X 9786612895777 9786613833983 Year: 2012 Volume: 314 Publisher: Amsterdam John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Stylistic fronting is an operation which moves elements generally occupying the position to the right of the finite verb such as adjectives, past participles, and adverbs to the position immediately preceding it in clauses with a subject gap. The operation is typically observed in Modern Icelandic and in earlier stages of the Scandinavian languages. In this article I will extensively examine Old and Middle English texts and show that word order patterns arguably attributed to stylistic fronting are widely observed both in Old and Middle English and are not confined to texts which are likely to have been heavily influenced by Old Norse speakers. This is contrary to Trips (2002), who attributes the presence of the stylistic fronting patterns in the Ormulum to the Scandinavian invasions. Taking into consideration the wide distribution of relevant examples, I will conclude that the process of stylistic fronting was a genuine property of Old and Middle English.
Historical linguistics --- English language --- Conferences - Meetings --- Grammar, Historical --- History --- Anglais (Langue) --- Congresses. --- Grammaire historique --- Congrès --- Histoire --- Congresses --- Germanic languages --- English language - Grammar, Historical - Congresses --- English language - History - Congresses
ISBN: 9027286000 9786613092809 1283092808 9789027286000 9027235627 9789027235626 6613092800 9781283092807 Year: 1990 Publisher: Amsterdam Philadelphia J. Benjamins Pub. Co.
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This volume is a collection of articles based on papers presented at the 5th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics at Cambridge in 1987. It draws together important state-of-the-art' studies in the syntax, phonology, morphology and semantics of Old, Middle and Modern English by prominent figures in the field into a single volume. Core theoretical areas are well represented and there are also major papers in dialectology, stylistics, metrics, socio-historical linguistics and the history of English linguistics.The volume is dedicated to the memory of Professor James P. Thorn
English language --- Germanic languages --- History --- History&delete& --- Congresses --- Middle English, 1100-1500 --- Old English, ca. 450-1100 --- English language - History - Congresses. --- English language - Middle English, 1100-1500 - Congresses. --- English language - Old English, ca. 450-1100 - Congresses.
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