Pronominal and adverbial clitics in Old English : Evidence from Beowulf (Part 2)

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In Part I, after the introduction in section 1, section 2 illustrated prosodic deficiency and distributional anomaly of sentential clitics with Serbo-Croatian examples. Section 3 illustrated the structure of Germanic alliterative verse and showed how to interpret stress encoded in the metrical structure. In section 4, after the definition of pronominal and adverbial clitics in Old English, section 4.1 examined the distributional patterns of these pronouns and adverbs in Beowulf: they tend to occur in a sequence in a specific order and some of the pronouns show the phenomenon of clitic climbing. In Part II, section 4.2 examines the stress and distribution of pronouns and short adverbs in Beowulf. As Kuhn (1933) and Pintzuk (1991, 1996, 1999) point out, most pronouns and a number of short sentential adverbs are unstressed in clause-early position, which suggests, together with the evidence presented in Part I, that these pronouns and short adverbs are sentential clitics. On the other hand, many of the stressed counterparts are apparently under emphasis. That is, they tend to occur in clause-late position and especially in the pre-verbal position. Also, stressed pronouns are often accompanied by appositive phrases. Further, the first and the second person pronouns are more often stressed than the third person pronouns due to a greater degree of discourse prominence. Finally, section 5 summarizes the findings of the present work.

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  • 研究論集

    研究論集 89 1-19, 2009-03

    関西外国語大学・関西外国語大学短期大学部

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