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## Introduction Introductory and advanced studies of Old English grammar often suggest, briefly, that the syntax of Old English is very similar to the syntax of Modern English, but rarely do they pursue the point and indicate the precise extent of the similarity. Rather, they concentrate on those structures in Old English texts which are different from the structures of Modern English, and, thus, they effectively mask the fact that the similarities far outnumber the differences. No study of English grammar attempts to determine, by systematic comparison of Old English and Modern English syntactic structures, the extent of the similarities and the nature of the differences. Rather, students of Old English syntax have pursued one of three courses : 1. They have sampled various texts to note the general direction of change and have then concentrated on those changes which have affected the structure of one syntactic element. There are studies of adverbial clauses, 1 of nouns and non-clausal noun modifiers, 2 of relative clauses, 3 of indirect objects, 4 of periphrastic genitive phrases, 5 of sentential nominals, 6 appositives, 7 infinitives, 8 absolute participles, 9 and verb phrases.
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- Author
- Johnson, Judith Anne
- Publisher
- De Gruyter De Gruyter Mouton
- Published
- 1975
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783111715278
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Religion, Literary Fiction, Humanities