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Study on the Underlying Word Order of Old English through Interlinear Glosses

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15320060
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field English linguistics
Research InstitutionChubu University

Principal Investigator

OHKADO Masayuki  Chubu University, Dept.of Humanities, Professor, 人文学部, 教授 (70213642)

Project Period (FY) 2003 – 2006
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2006)
Budget Amount *help
¥9,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥9,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥6,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,700,000)
KeywordsOld English / interlinear glosses / word order / The Lindisfarne Gospels / auxiliary / nonfinite verb / generative grammar / underlying word order / リンディスファーン福音書 / 行間注釈 / 非定形語順 / Lindisfarne Gospels / 非定型動詞 / ラテン語
Research Abstract

(A)-(E) are concerned with the Lindisfarne Gloss, (F) glosses written in other dialects, (G) Old English prose, (H) Middle English prose, and (I) Old and Middle English in general.
(A) Word order in Old English glosses translating a single Latin word into more than one Old English word reflects the genuine syntactic pattern of Old English.
(B) Word order of Modal Constructions (constructions with modal verbs and infinitives) and Participle Constructions (constructions with BE and past participles) in Old English glosses is not a direct reflection of morphological structure of the Latin original.
(C) The choice between head-initial MV (modal-infinitive) and head-final VM (infinitive-modal) order or head-initial BV (BE-participle) and head-final VB (participle-BE) order is influenced by the presence of the negating particle.
(D) The choice between MV and VM order or BV and VB order is influenced by the presence or absence of the subject, which indicates the existence of stylistic fronting.
(E) Since head-final order is observed in constructions with subjects, we should conclude that head-initial as well as head-final order was an acceptable underlying order.
(F) The phenomena accounted for in terms of stylistic fronting are not observed in glosses written in dialects other than the northern dialect.
(G) In Old English prose, phenomena comparable to those caused by stylistic fronting are observed in Modal Constructions as well as in Participle Constructions.
(H) In Middle English prose, the application of stylistic fronting seems to be limited to Participle Constructions in the Northern dialect, but the operation can apply to Modal Constructions as well as Participle Constructions in other dialects.
(I) The difference between the Northern dialect and other dialects can be accounted for in terms of the influence of the Old Norse starting from the Viking invasion.

Report

(5 results)
  • 2006 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2005 Annual Research Report
  • 2004 Annual Research Report
  • 2003 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (13 results)

All 2007 2006 2005

All Journal Article (11 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] On Word Order in Old English Interlinear Glosses, with Special Reference to the Lindisfarne and Rushworth Glosses2007

    • Author(s)
      Ohkado, Masayuki
    • Journal Title

      Exploring the Universe of Language : A Festschrift for Dr. Hirozo Nakano on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday (Nagoya University)

      Pages: 285-304

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] On Word Order in Old English Interlinear Glosses, with Special Reference to the Lindisfarne and Rushworth Glosses2007

    • Author(s)
      Ohkado, Masayuki
    • Journal Title

      Exploring the Universe of Language : A Festschrift for Dr.Hirozo Nakano on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday (Nagoya University)

      Pages: 285-304

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] On Word Order in Old English Interlinear Glosses, with Special Reference to the Lindisfarne and Rushworth Glosses2007

    • Author(s)
      OHKADO, Masayuki
    • Journal Title

      Exploring the Universe of Language : A Festschrift for Dr. Hirozo Nakano on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday, Nagoya University

      Pages: 285-304

    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] On Word Order in Constructions with Two Predicates in Old English Interlinear Glosses2006

    • Author(s)
      OHKADO, Masayuki
    • Journal Title

      Textual and Contextual Studies in Medieval English : towards the Reunion of Linguistics and Philology (ed. by Michiko Ogura) (Peter Lang)

      Pages: 127-145

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Stylistic Fronting in Middle English2006

    • Author(s)
      Ohkado, Masayuki
    • Journal Title

      Journal of the College of Humanities 17

      Pages: 13-33

    • NAID

      110006607682

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] On Word Order in Constructions with Two Predicates in Old English Interlinear Glosses2006

    • Author(s)
      Ohkado, Masayuki
    • Journal Title

      Textual and Contextual Studies in Medieval English towards the Reunion of Linguistics and Philology(ed by Michiko Ogura)(Peter Lang)

      Pages: 127-145

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] On Word Order in Constructions with Two Predicates in Old English Interlinear Glosses,2006

    • Author(s)
      OHKADO, Masayuki
    • Journal Title

      Textual and Contextual Studies in Medieval English : Towards the Reunion of Linguistics and Philology, ed. by Michiko Ogura, Peter Lang.

      Pages: 127-145

    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Stylistic Fronting in Middle English2006

    • Author(s)
      OHKADO, Masayuki
    • Journal Title

      Journal of the college of Humanities 17

      Pages: 13-33

    • NAID

      110006607682

    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 行間注解が明らかにする、古英語の基本構造2005

    • Author(s)
      大門 正幸
    • Journal Title

      Papers from the Twenty-Second Conference of The English Linguistic Society of Japan 22

      Pages: 161-170

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Underlying Structure of Old Englis according to Interlinear Glosses2005

    • Author(s)
      Ohkado, Masayuki
    • Journal Title

      Papers from the Twenty-Second Conference of The English Linguistic Society of Japan 22

      Pages: 161-170

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] 行間注解が明らかにする、古英語の基本構造2005

    • Author(s)
      大門 正幸
    • Journal Title

      Papers from the 22^<nd> Conference of The English Linguistic Society of Japan 22

      Pages: 161-170

    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] The Lindisfarne Gloss Database2007

    • Author(s)
      Ohkado, Masayuki
    • Total Pages
      770
    • Publisher
      Sankeisha
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Book] The Lindisfarne Gloss Database2007

    • Author(s)
      OHKADO, Masayuki
    • Total Pages
      770
    • Publisher
      Sankeisha
    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2003-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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