Affiliation:
1. Australian National University
Abstract
Abstract
Taylor (2014) observes that some of the factual claims made in Allen (1980), the most thorough examination of free relatives in Old English to date, are
not entirely correct. Taylor presents some examples that Allen’s analysis of Old English free relatives does not account for and
proposes an alternative analysis in which the relative pronoun can be internal to the relative clause and the case of the pronoun
is determined by the case hierarchy proposed by Harbert (2007) for Gothic. This
corpus-based study supplies new data showing that while Taylor’s relative-internal analysis is needed for some examples, the
evidence does not support the suggested case hierarchy except in regulating optional case attraction. Latin influence may account
for examples that do not fit the usual patterns.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics
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