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- Title: Clause Structure in Old English (Book Review)
- Author : Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 189 KB
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Clause structure in Old English. By Masayuki Ohkado, 2005. Pp. viii, 285. The volume under review is a collection of seven papers devoted to a number of issues concerning the structure of Old English (henceforth OE) clauses, with special emphasis on word order. The papers were written by Masayuki Ohkado from 1994 to 2004 and all but one have already been published in linguistic journals or collections of essays. Each paper constitutes a separate chapter and may be read without reference to the rest of the volume. Alternatively, it may be treated as part of a larger whole united by its common subject matter. The thought underlying the volume is to present some well-known empirical facts of OE syntax from a novel perspective, i.e. through the prism of formal syntactic theories. With this intention in mind, the author addresses the selected syntactic issues and analyses them by employing a theoretical apparatus worked out by the generative scholarship. The papers incorporate the basic tenets of Chomsky's Theory of Government and Binding as well as some major contributions of the GB-based research to the study of early English. By departing from the traditional (i.e. purely descriptive) approach the author hopes that his work will throw new light on old data and give a better insight into the selected aspects of OE clause structure.