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UNINA9910817453903321 |
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Autore |
Bergen Linda van. |
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Titolo |
Pronouns and word order in Old English : with particular reference to the indefinite pronoun man / / Linda van Bergen |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2015 |
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ISBN |
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1-317-41675-9 |
1-315-68697-X |
1-317-41674-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (245 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge Library Editions : The English Language ; ; Volume 2 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English language - Old English, ca. 450-1100 - Pronoun |
English language - Old English, ca. 450-1100 - Word order |
Man (The Old English word) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Aims and structure of the thesis; 1.2 Pronouns and studies on Old English word order; 1.3 On electronic resources; 1.4 Some notes on data and examples; 1.5 Preliminaries on theory; 2 Topicalisation and (non-)inversion; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Helsinki Corpus; 2.3 Negation; 2.4 Subjunctives; 2.5 Cura Pastoralis and the works of Ælfric; 2.6 Counter-examples; 3 Other aspects of word order in relation to man; 3.1 The problem |
3.2 Separability from the subordinator3.3 Inversion; 3.4 Preceding object pronouns; 3.5 Genuinely mixed categories?; 4 On the status of man and personal pronouns; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Word classes treated as clitics in analyses of Old English; 4.2.1 Personal pronouns; 4.2.2 Adverbs; 4.2.3 Þær; 4.3 Man as a clitic; 4.4 Contra a weak pronoun analysis; 5 Topics in Old English clause structure; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Clause structure and clitic placement; 5.2.1 van Kemenade (1987); 5.2.2 Pintzuk (1991, 1996); 5.2.3 Kiparsky (1995, 1996); 5.2.4 Van Kemenade (1998), Hulk and van Kemenade (1997) |
5.2.5 Kroch and Taylor (1997)5.3 Topicalisation in subordinate clauses; |
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5.4 Inversion of pronominal subjects in clauses with topicalisation; 6 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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First published in 2003, this is a study of the syntactic behaviour of personal pronoun subjects and the indefinite pronoun man, in Old English. It focuses on differences in word order as compared to full noun phrases. In generative work on Old English, noun phrases have 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 has been good reason to believe that man should be grouped with personal pronouns. This book explores investigations carri |
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