Towards a linguistic interpretation of Kuhn's Laws:With special reference to Old English Beowulf (Part 2)

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Kuhn's (1933) two Laws concern clause-initial clustering of what he calls 'satzpartikel' such as pronouns, short adverbs, and light finite verbs in Germanic alliterative verse. The Laws are formulated in metrical terms and are claimed by the proponent to reflect archaic linguistic features preserved in poetry. This paper critically evaluates Kuhn's Laws from a linguistic perspective based on examination of Old English Beowulf. Part I (Volume 95) first discussed cliticization phenomenon of pronouns, adverbs, and light finite verbs in early Germanic, especially Beowulf (section 2). With this as background, it then examined Kuhn's definition of clause particles (section 3) and the first type of violations of the First Law (section 4), showing, contrary to what Kuhn intends, that only part of Kuhn's clause particles are clitics and that only part of the First Law violations reflects the innovative word order. Part II (this volume) begins with the second type of violations of the First Law and discusses the issue of Kuhn's Laws as metrical conventions in Section 4. Section 5 examines the Second Law and shows that it reflects linguistic archaism only in an indirect way. The paper then takes up the issue that affects application of the Laws: the distinction between clause and phrase particles in section 6. This section continues through Part III (Volume 97), which also discusses metrical analyses in relation to the Laws.

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  • 研究論集

    研究論集 96 1-20, 2012-09

    関西外国語大学・関西外国語大学短期大学部

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