Old English V-initial and þa-VS main clauses: Independent constructions or allostructions?

A Cichosz - Constructions and Frames, 2022 - jbe-platform.com
This study is a corpus-based constructionist analysis of Old English (OE) constituent order,
focusing on verb-initial declaratives and þa-VS main clauses. The main objective of the …

Parenthetical reporting clauses in the history of English: the development of quotative inversion

A Cichosz - English Language & Linguistics, 2019 - cambridge.org
This study is a corpus-based diachronic analysis of English reporting parentheticals, ie
clauses introducing direct speech, placed after or in the middle of the reported message …

Negation and Verb-initial Order in Old English main clauses

A Cichosz - Journal of English linguistics, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
This study investigates two Old English (OE) constructions:“negative inversion”(a negated
main clause with a clause-initial verb), and “narrative inversion”(a non-negated main clause …

Verb-final conjunct clauses in Old English prose: The role of Latin in translated texts

A Cichosz - NOWELE, 2021 - jbe-platform.com
The aim of this study is to analyse intertextual differences in the use of V-final order in Old
English conjunct clauses and to determine to what extent the source of these differences …

Inversion after Clause-Initial Adverbs in Old English: The Special Status of þa, þonne, nu, and swa

A Cichosz - Journal of English Linguistics, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
This study is a corpus-based analysis of clause-initial adverbs and their ability to invert
pronominal and nominal subjects in Old English (OE) prose. There is a limited set of …

The verb-initial independent declarative clauses on which the most complete witnesses to the Old English Bede disagree

E Afros - Studia Neophilologica, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The article examines the verb-initial independent declarative clauses with overt subjects
(V1) in the Old English Bede on which the most complete witnesses disagree. It identifies the …

The origin of English clause-initial quotative inversion

A Cichosz - Journal of Historical Linguistics, 2018 - jbe-platform.com
This study is a corpus-based investigation of the development of English clause-initial
quotative inversion, ie the construction in which a reporting clause with SV inversion is …

[PDF][PDF] Verb-final conjunct clauses in Old English prose

A Cichosz - 2021 - academia.edu
The aim of this study is to analyse intertextual differences in the use of V-final order in Old
English conjunct clauses and to determine to what extent the source of these differences …

Reconstructing the left peripheries of Proto-Indo-European

DL Bate - 2024 - era.ed.ac.uk
This thesis is an exercise in syntactic reconstruction, the proposal of the word-order patterns
in a prehistoric language. The language in question is Proto-Indo-European, the …

The position of the genitive in Old English prose: Intertextual differences and the role of Latin

A Cichosz, M Grabski - Folia Linguistica, 2020 - degruyter.com
The present article is a systematic, large-scale corpus study of the varying position of the Old
English adnominal genitive. Particular focus is put on intertextual variation and the potential …