| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study explores prosodic and semantic factors as the causes of changes in word order in Old English (OE) and Middle English (ME) by investigating and analysing Alfred’s Circle’s literature of verse and prose, Aelfric’s prose in late OE, and the prose part of the Peterborough Chronicle in early ME.
The V1 word order in OE prose, which often occurs in OE verse, is analysed in order to relate it to a semantic factor, which corresponds to a prosodic one. This study clarifies that the extinction of this word order was caused by the decline of V1 in ME verse and the V3 word order, which was related to a semantic factor, changed the predominant V2 word order Aelfric’s prose in late OE to the SV(O) word order.
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