Case and preposition stranding in Old English free relatives

Cynthia L. Allen*

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    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.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)193-200
    Number of pages8
    JournalNOWELE
    Volume73
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 16 Oct 2020

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