Aspects of Old English Poetic Syntax: Where Clauses Begin

by Mary Blockley

In Aspects of Old English Poetic Syntax, Mary Blockley uses modern linguistics to tackle the thorny problem of how to interpret a written language that relied neither on punctuation nor on capitalization to mark clause boundaries and subordination.

Distinguished by a remarkable combination of erudition and lucidity, Aspects of Old English Poetic Syntax provides new insight into the rules that govern syntactic relationships and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252026063
• ISBN13: 9780252026065
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"