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The Development from Case-Forms to Prepositional Constructions in Old English Prose

The Development from Case-Forms to Prepositional Constructions in Old English Prose

Sato, Kiriko
Gotti, Maurizio

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Series: Linguistic Insights, Book 88

Medical ReferenceGermanLinguistics

ISBN10: 3039117637
ISBN13: 9783039117635
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Feb 10 2009
Pages: 231
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The development from a synthetic to an analytic language is one of the most important topics in English historical syntax. This development is reflected in the gradual decrease of case-forms and the replacement of their functions with equivalent prepositional constructions. Focussing on the Old English period, when case-forms and prepositional constructions overlapped in various functions, this book aims to answer an unresolved question: was there a significant change in the use of case-forms and, alternatively, in the use of prepositions plus case-forms in contexts where both types were possible? The author makes a statistical comparison between prose texts written in the early Old English period and texts of the later Old English period; she also takes into account stylistic features of individual texts. Thus, this book addresses this Old English syntactic issue both from a historical and a stylistic perspective and shows the stages of development during the Old English period.

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