Word order tendencies in mediaeval English against the Indo-European background

Ireneusz Kida

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Kida, Ireneusz. Word order tendencies in mediaeval English against the Indo-European background. Red. . Katowice: Uniwersytet Śląski, 2011, 162 s. ISBN 978-83-8012-606-0

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ISBN/ISSN:

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Uniwersytet Śląski

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2011

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162

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List of contentsIntroduction /7
The aim of the book /7
The structure of the book /8
C h a p t e r 1 Forming an annotated corpus 1.1. Outline of word order theories /13
1.2. Forming our own corpus for the analysis of word order changes /18
1.2.1. Introduction /18
1.2.2. Tags used in the corpus /19
1.2.3. The main clause /20
1.2.4. The dependent clause /23
1.2.5. Corpus flexibility: the investigation of parataxis and hypotaxis /25
1.2.6. Concluding remarks /36
C h a p t e r 2 Proto-Germanic word order2.1. Proto-Indo-European and its later developments /37
2.2. Proto-Germanic word order /39
2.3. Word order in runic inscriptions /40
2.4. How much does Old High German tell us about the Proto-Germanic word order? /53
2.4.1. Introduction /53
2.4.2. The analysis of Tatian (T1) /54
2.4.3. The analysis of the Vulgate (L1) for comparison with Tatian (T1) /56
2.4.4. The analysis of Tatian (T2) for comparison with T1 and L1 /60
2.5. How much does Gothic tell us about the Proto-Germanic word order? /61
2.5.1. Introduction /61
2.5.2. Comparison of the Gothic Bible (Go1) with the Septuagint (Gr1) /62
2.6. The West-Saxon Bible (WSB1): how much of Englishness? /69
2.7. The influence of Latin and Greek upon the translations of the Bible into the oldest Germanic dialects /71
2.8. Proto-Germanic word order according to our analysis /73
C h a p t e r 3 Old English word order3.1. Some characteristics of the Old English word order /79
3.2. The analysis of the Old English Orosius /83
3.3. The analysis of Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies /85
3.4. Word order in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: comparison of the entries pre-1066 of the A-manuscript and the E-manuscript /88
3.5. The Parker Chronicle: the pre-891 and the 891—1066 periods compared /93
3.6. The Peterborough Chronicle: the pre-891 and the 891—1066 periods compared /97
3.7. Old Norse: how much of Scandinavian influence upon the word order of English? /102
3.7.1. The socio-linguistic background /102
3.7.2. The analysis of word order in Heimskringla /104
C h a p t e r 4 Middle English word order4.1. Towards the shaping of the Middle English word order /109
4.2. Word order in the entries 1067—1121 of the Peterborough Chronicle /110
4.3. Word order in the First Continuation of the Peterborough Chronicle (entries 1122—1131) /111
4.4. Word order in the Second Continuation of the Peterborough Chronicle (entries 1132—1154) /114
4.5. The analysis of Juliana /118
4.6. Introduction to the analysis of Ancrene Wisse /120
4.6.1. Word order in Ancrene Wisse /121
4.7. The analysis of the Prose Treatises of Richard Rolle de Hampole /124
4.8. The analysis of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Astrolabe /126
4.9. The analysis of the Wycliffe’s Bible (WB1) /128
4.10. Anglo-Norman: how much of influence upon the English word order? /130
4.10.1. The socio-linguistic background /130
4.10.2. Some facts concerning the word order of Anglo-Norman based on the comparison of Foedera and its Latin counterpart /134
4.10.3. The analysis of word order in Foedera /136
5.2. The locus of VO spread: main vs subordinate clauses /139
C h a pt e r 5 The trajectory of word order change in English5.1. Conclusions /139
5.3. The diachrony of the development of word order in English: from pre-Proto-Germanic to Late Middle English /141
Bibliography /147
References /147
Sources /150
Assisting websites /151
Streszczenie /153
Résumé /154

Introduction

mostinterestingobservationshereisthat,althoughthePeterboroughManu-

scriptisanortherncopyofachroniclewrittenintheWestSaxondialect,and

thusis4moremodern’asregardswordorderbecausethenortherndialectsof

EnglishweregenerallymoreVO,onecanﬁndinitthereﬂexionoftheword

orderchangesthatweregoingonintheWestSaxondialect.Towardstheend

ofChapter3weperformananalysisofasampleofHeimskringla,anOld

Norsetext,andbearinginmindthedatathatweobtainfromitsanalysis,as

wellasfromtheanalysisoftherunicinscriptionscomingfromthesecond

period,i.e.theVikingAge,wetrytoestablishtowhatextentthewordorder

inEnglishwasinﬂuencedbyOldNorse.Oneofourobservationshereisthat

OldNorseplayedanenormousroleinthedevelopmentofVOwordorderin

English.

InChapter4weconcentratemostlyuponEarlyMiddleEnglishandLate

MiddleEnglishtexts.Webeginbyanalysingtheentries106711121ofthe

PeterboroughChronicleandthenweanalysethetworemainingpartsofit,

namelytheFirstContinuationandtheSecondContinuation.Althoughthe

entries106711121arestillwritteninOldEnglish,wethoughtitagoodidea

toanalysethembeforeafurtheranalysisofthePeterboroughChroniclein

ordertoseethecontrastbetweentheseentriesandthetwoContinuations

wherenoticeablegradualchangesinthespelling,vocabularyandwordor-

dercanbeobserved.AftertheanalysisofthePeterboroughManuscript,we

analysethetextsofJuliana,AncreneWisse,theProseTreatisesofRichard

Rolle,theAstrolabeofGeoffreyChaucer,andsomefragmentsofWycliffe’s

Bible.Thisanalysisallowsustotracesomefurthernoveltiesinthechanging

EnglishwordordertoVO.TowardstheendofChapter4wediscussthepos-

sibleinﬂuencesofAnglo-NormanuponthedevelopmentofVOwordorder

inEnglish.Thisdiscussionisbasedontheanalysisoftwotextswrittenin

Anglo-Norman,namelyFoederaandtheOxfordPsalter.Oneofthemostin-

terestingobservationshereisthatAnglo-NormanhadmanymoreOVword

orderconﬁgurationsthantheEnglishlanguageatthattime.Thisobservation

refersespeciallytothepositionofthepronominalobjectwithrespecttothe

verb.AlthoughAnglo-NormanwasOVtoquitealargeextent,itneverthe-

lessboostedthefurtherdevelopmentofVOwordorderstructuresinEnglish

butinadifferentwaythanOldNorsedid.

InChapter5wemakeasummaryofthewordorderanalysisthatwedid

inthepreviouschaptersandwetrytoarriveatsomeconclusionsthatthis

analysisoffers.Theaimofthissummaryistodiscoversomeregularityin

thechangefromOVtoVOinEnglishwordorder.Thisregularity,however,

canonlybeobservedonthebasisofaconsciousselectionofonlyafew

analysedtextsdatingfromdifferentperiodsinthehistoryofEnglishandnot

onthebasisofallofthetextsthatweanalysed.Thetextsthatdidnotﬁtthis

regularityverywellaresimplydisregardedhere,butthisdoesnotmeanthat

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