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Linguistic means of determining the dates of Old English literary texts
Ashley Crandell Amos
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Frontmatter
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List of Charts (page ix)
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Acknowledgments (page xi)
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List of Abbreviations (page xiii)
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Introduction (page 1)
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1 Phonological-Metrical Tests (page 13)
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1.1 Syncope and Apocope, Particularly U-Apocope (page 18)
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1.2 Loss of Post-Consonantal Prevocalic H and Subsequent Compensatory Lengthening (page 30)
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1.3 Contraction (page 40)
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1.4 Parasiting and the Syllabic Compounds (page 70)
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1.5 Purely Metrical Tests (page 92)
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1.6 Purely Phonological Tests (page 103)
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2 Syntactic and Grammatical Tests (page 109)
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2.1 The "Lichtenheld Tests" of the Definite Article and the Weak Adjective (page 110)
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2.2 The Instrumental Test (page 125)
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2.3 The Test of the Relative Pronoun (page 129)
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2.4 The Test of the Unexpressed Subject: Personal and Impersonal Pronouns in Subject Position (page 132)
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2.5 Sentence Structure as a Chronological Test (page 136)
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3 Lexical Tests (page 141)
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4 Stylistic Tests (page 157)
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Conclusion (page 167)
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Appendix: Scribal Variants in Passages from Two Prose Texts (page 171)
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1. Alfred's Pastoral Care (page 177)
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2. Ælfric's "De Initio Creaturae" (page 180)
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Bibliography (page 197)
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Index (page 209)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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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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Published: 1980
Publisher: Medieval Academy of America
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