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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Finite Verb Stress and Clitic Verbs in Old English ""Beowulf"
Abstract
dc:descriptionThe 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.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Linguistics
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Suzuki, Yasuko
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Hock, Hans Henrich
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI3347543
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/82655