"Finite Verb Stress and Clitic Verbs in Old English ""Beowulf"
Suzuki, Yasuko
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Description
Title
"Finite Verb Stress and Clitic Verbs in Old English ""Beowulf"
Author(s)
Suzuki, Yasuko
Issue Date
2008
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Hock, Hans Henrich
Department of Study
Linguistics
Discipline
Linguistics
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Literature, English
Language
eng
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.
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