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Linguistic means of determining the dates of Old English literary texts

Ashley Crandell Amos 1980 © Medieval Academy of America
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  • 9780910956703 (hardcover)
Subject
  • European: 400-1400
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • List of Charts (page ix)
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • List of Abbreviations (page xiii)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • 1 Phonological-Metrical Tests (page 13)
    • 1.1 Syncope and Apocope, Particularly U-Apocope (page 18)
    • 1.2 Loss of Post-Consonantal Prevocalic H and Subsequent Compensatory Lengthening (page 30)
    • 1.3 Contraction (page 40)
    • 1.4 Parasiting and the Syllabic Compounds (page 70)
    • 1.5 Purely Metrical Tests (page 92)
    • 1.6 Purely Phonological Tests (page 103)
  • 2 Syntactic and Grammatical Tests (page 109)
    • 2.1 The "Lichtenheld Tests" of the Definite Article and the Weak Adjective (page 110)
    • 2.2 The Instrumental Test (page 125)
    • 2.3 The Test of the Relative Pronoun (page 129)
    • 2.4 The Test of the Unexpressed Subject: Personal and Impersonal Pronouns in Subject Position (page 132)
    • 2.5 Sentence Structure as a Chronological Test (page 136)
  • 3 Lexical Tests (page 141)
  • 4 Stylistic Tests (page 157)
  • Conclusion (page 167)
  • Appendix: Scribal Variants in Passages from Two Prose Texts (page 171)
    • 1. Alfred's Pastoral Care (page 177)
    • 2. Ælfric's "De Initio Creaturae" (page 180)
  • Bibliography (page 197)
  • Index (page 209)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
YES 15 (1985): 268-269 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3508569
JEGP 85. 1 (Jan. 1986): 93-95 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27709616
SP 57.1 (Jan. 1982): 112-114 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2847564
RES 35. 139 (Aug. 1984): 346-347 http://www.jstor.org/stable/515770
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