Subjects, subject positions and word-order: Old Spanish vs. Old English

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susann Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
Word Order ◽  
Subject Positions ◽  
Old Spanish

SOME PRINCIPLES OF OLD ENGLISH WORD-ORDER

Medium Ævum ◽  
1934 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
Word Order ◽  
English Word

Morphological case and word order in Old English

2002 ◽  
Vol 24 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 381-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Pintzuk
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
Word Order

Adnominal adjectives in Old English

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAGMAR HAUMANN
Keyword(s):  
Old English ◽  
Word Order ◽  
Theoretical Studies ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Word Order Variation ◽  
Adjectival Inflection ◽  
Order Variation

Even though adnominal adjectives in Old English are distributionally versatile in that they may precede, follow or flank the noun they modify, their positioning is not random but follows from systematic interpretive contrasts between pre- and postnominal adjectives, such as ‘attribution vs predication’, ‘individual-level vs stage-level reading’ and ‘restrictive vs non-restrictive modification’. These contrasts are largely independent of adjectival inflection (pace Fischer 2000, 2001, 2006). The placement of adnominal adjectives in Old English is investigated in relation to recent comparative and theoretical studies on word order and word order variation (see Cinque 2007; Larson & Marušič 2004).

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