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Title: | Finite Verb Stress and Clitic Verbs in Old English "Beowulf |
Author(s): | Suzuki, Yasuko |
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): | Hock, Hans Henrich |
Department / Program: | Linguistics |
Discipline: | Linguistics |
Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Degree: | Ph.D. |
Genre: | Dissertation |
Subject(s): | Literature, English |
Abstract: | The present work shows that using poetry as evidence for linguistic structure is justified by an appropriate understanding of the metrical structure and of its interaction with the poetic language. Also, Beowulf, along with other Old English poems, provides evidence for stress and archaic linguistic features, neither of which is available in prose. By closely examining the text that supposedly represents the earliest stage of the North- and West-Germanic, the present work elucidates the development of verb-second in early Germanic and of second-position clitics in general. |
Issue Date: | 2008 |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
Description: | 249 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2008. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/82655 |
Other Identifier(s): | (MiAaPQ)AAI3347543 |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2015-09-25 |
Date Deposited: | 2008 |
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