List of contents

Introduction / 7

The aim of the book / 7

The structure of the book / 8

C h a p t e r  1 Forming an annotated corpus

1.1. Outline of word order theories / 13

1.2. Forming our own corpus for the analysis of word order changes / 18

1.2.1. Introduction / 18

1.2.2. Tags used in the corpus / 19

1.2.3. The main clause / 20

1.2.4. The dependent clause / 23

1.2.5. Corpus flexibility: the investigation of parataxis and hypotaxis / 25

1.2.6. Concluding remarks / 36

C h a p t e r  2 Proto-Germanic word order

2.1. Proto-Indo-European and its later developments / 37

2.2. Proto-Germanic word order / 39

2.3. Word order in runic inscriptions / 40

2.4. How much does Old High German tell us about the Proto-Germanic word order? / 53

2.4.1. Introduction / 53

2.4.2. The analysis of Tatian (T1) / 54

2.4.3. The analysis of the Vulgate (L1) for comparison with Tatian (T1) / 56

2.4.4. The analysis of Tatian (T2) for comparison with T1 and L1 / 60

2.5. How much does Gothic tell us about the Proto-Germanic word order? / 61

2.5.1. Introduction / 61

2.5.2. Comparison of the Gothic Bible (Go1) with the Septuagint (Gr1) / 62

2.6. The West-Saxon Bible (WSB1): how much of Englishness? / 69

2.7. The influence of Latin and Greek upon the translations of the Bible into the oldest Germanic dialects / 71

2.8. Proto-Germanic word order according to our analysis / 73

C h a p t e r  3 Old English word order

3.1. Some characteristics of the Old English word order / 79

3.2. The analysis of the Old English Orosius / 83

3.3. The analysis of Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies / 85

3.4. Word order in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: comparison of the entries pre-1066 of the A-manuscript and the E-manuscript / 88

3.5. The Parker Chronicle: the pre-891 and the 891—1066 periods compared / 93

3.6. The Peterborough Chronicle: the pre-891 and the 891—1066 periods compared / 97

3.7. Old Norse: how much of Scandinavian influence upon the word order of English? / 102

3.7.1. The socio-linguistic background / 102

3.7.2. The analysis of word order in Heimskringla / 104

C h a p t e r  4 Middle English word order

4.1. Towards the shaping of the Middle English word order / 109

4.2. Word order in the entries 1067—1121 of the Peterborough Chronicle / 110

4.3. Word order in the First Continuation of the Peterborough Chronicle (entries 1122—1131) / 111

4.4. Word order in the Second Continuation of the Peterborough Chronicle (entries 1132—1154) / 114

4.5. The analysis of Juliana / 118

4.6. Introduction to the analysis of Ancrene Wisse / 120

4.6.1. Word order in Ancrene Wisse / 121

4.7. The analysis of the Prose Treatises of Richard Rolle de Hampole / 124

4.8. The analysis of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Astrolabe / 126

4.9. The analysis of the Wycliffe’s Bible (WB1) / 128

4.10. Anglo-Norman: how much of influence upon the English word order? / 130

4.10.1. The socio-linguistic background / 130

4.10.2. Some facts concerning the word order of Anglo-Norman based on the comparison of Foedera and its Latin counterpart / 134

4.10.3. The analysis of word order in Foedera / 136

C h a pt e r  5 The trajectory of word order change in English

5.1. Conclusions / 139

5.2. The locus of VO spread: main vs subordinate clauses / 139

5.3. The diachrony of the development of word order in English: from pre-Proto-Germanic to Late Middle English / 141

Bibliography / 147

References / 147

Sources / 150

Assisting websites / 151

Streszczenie / 153

Résumé / 154

• Title: Word order tendencies in mediaeval English against the Indo-European background
• Author: Ireneusz Kida
• ISBN: 978-83-801-2606-0, 9788380126060
• Date of issue: 2015-09-03
• Format: Ebook
• Item ID: e_1p13
• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego