The Syntax of the , and oe þon Mā þe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23230558 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George William Small (University of Maine, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1930 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 368-391 |
| Publication date | 1930-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-8129 • E-ISSN: 1938-1530 |
| Publisher | Modern Language Association (MLA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/457798 |
| OpenAlex | W2326447652 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The remarkable construction referred to in the title, þon mā þe, þon lēofre þe , etc., was first studied by the present writer in a previous article ( MLN XLI, 300-313). There, by bringing together some twenty occurrences from different OE writings, prose and poetry both early and late, it was shown that the construction was something more than the sporadic expression it had previously been thought to be. Its wide-spread use in OE and the fact that different adjectives and adverbs occurred in the construction (e.g. nēar, lēofre, betran, swīður, ēð , etc.) showed that it was not confined to one time or one place or one writer. So far as the evidence in that article went the construction was used as a subordinate conjunction equivalent to than in the comparison of inequality, following only negative main clauses.
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| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1992 - 2018 (27) |
| Highly cited | No |