Old Northumbrian Verbal Morphosyntax and the (Northern) Subject Rule.
This volume provides both a quantitative statistical and qualitative analysis of Late Northumbrian verbal morphosyntax as recorded in the Old English interlinear gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels. It focuses in particular on the attestation of the subject type and adjacency constraints that character...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2014.
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| Series: | North-Western European language evolution. Supplement ;
v. 25. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | This volume provides both a quantitative statistical and qualitative analysis of Late Northumbrian verbal morphosyntax as recorded in the Old English interlinear gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels. It focuses in particular on the attestation of the subject type and adjacency constraints that characterise the so-called Northern Subject Rule concord system. The study presents new evidence which challenges the traditional Early Middle English dating attributed to the emergence of subject-type concord in the North of England and demonstrates that the syntactic configuration of the Northern Subject R. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 130692037X 9781306920377 9789027269911 9027269912 |
| ISSN: | 0900-8675 ; |
