LINGUIST List 13.1500

Fri May 24 2002

Books: Historical Ling: Pronouns and Word Order in OE

Editor for this issue: Richard John Harvey <richardlinguistlist.org>

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1. jleppig, Pronouns and Word Order in Old English

			
Title: Pronouns and Word Order in Old English, 
 with Particular Reference to the Indefinite Pronoun Man

Series Title: Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics
			
Publication Year: 2002
			
Publisher: Routledge 
 http://www.routledge.com/
			
Author: Linda van Bergen 
				

Hardback: ISBN: 041594161X, Pages: 904, Price: 80.00

Comment: Series Editor: Laurence Horn
			
Abstract:


This is a study of the syntactic behaviour of personal
pronoun subjects and the indefinite pronoun man in Old
English, focusing on differences in word order as compared
to full noun phrases. In generative work on Old English,
noun phrases are usually divided into two categories:
'nominal' and 'pronominal'. The latter category has
typically been restricted to personal pronouns, but despite
striking similarities to the behaviour of nominals there
were good reasons to believe that man should be grouped
with personal pronouns. A full investigation was done with
the aid of the Toronto Corpus, which confirmed this
hypothesis. This in turn has consequences for the analysis
of personal pronouns.

Lingfield(s): Historical Linguistics, Syntax
			 
Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)