A quantitative model of verb–object order in Middle English with special reference to the prose–poetry distinction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21695324 |
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| Authors | RICHARD ZIMMERMANN (0000-0002-9189-3443, University of Manchester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 603-620 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | English Language and Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-6743 • E-ISSN: 1469-4379 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1360674322000168 |
| OpenAlex | W4290635555 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 23 |
This article reports a regression model for the change from OV to VO in Middle English. It focuses on genre (prose versus poetry) as a predictor by including data from a recently published corpus, the Parsed Corpus of Middle English Poetry (PCMEP; Zimmermann 2015). Other independent variables considered are time, object type, clause type and weight. The results specify the time course of the development in Middle English with great precision and replicate several effects from the previous literature including the importance of the genre variable, poetry being considerably more conservative than prose. It is recommended that poetry texts should be considered in studies on early Middle English syntax more generally to arrive at comprehensive assessments of linguistic changes at the time
Art · Linguistics · Literature · Middle English · Parsing · Poetry · Syntax · Verb · Computer Science · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Artificial Intelligence
Syntactic Case and Morphological Case in the History of English
The survival of object-verb order in Middle English
Syntax
Verb-Object Order in Early Middle English
Negated subjects and objects in 15th-century nonliterary English
The rightward movement of complements and adjuncts in the Old English of Beowulf
How to set Parameters
Remnants of the Old Order
Smooth Signals and Syntactic Change
| Highly cited | No |
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