Investigating Determinants of Word Order in a Database of Old English Poetry

诗的句法通常被认为比散文的要宽松得多，因为，例如，诗中的词序可能会被韵律和公式的要求所修改。Momma（1997）主张更严格的韵律句法。然而，即使在Momma的规则下，情态助动词（M）和非限定动词（V）的语序似乎仍然有很大的自由，甚至是明显的随意性。沿着这些思路的一个最近的研究是小仓（2006），他研究了波爱修斯的格律，并得出结论，它们是如此公式化，以适应盎格鲁-撒克逊诗歌的模具。同样，在这个公式化理论中，MV和VM顺序都可以找到，显然是随机的。本项目的目的是通过考察古英语中的韵文和散文中含有复杂谓语的结构来研究韵文和散文句法之间的关系。 ...更多信息 在古英语中。结果表明，诗句句法比迄今为止所承认的更紧密。我之前的研究结果（Suzuki 2004）指出，头韵实际上是决定Beowulf从句中MV/VM语序的关键因素。在这个项目中，我试图将这一理论应用于更全面的古英语诗歌语料库和更广泛的辅助类型中头韵在确定语序方面的重要性：情态结构、分词结构和不定式结构。因此，本项目试图验证是否在贝奥武夫观察到的趋势也可以在其他文本中辨别，指出它们适用于古英语诗歌作为一个整体。结果证实了这些趋势。这个项目的另一个目的是创建一个新的数据库，专门用于探索古英语诗歌中的词序决定因素。这个数据库仍在进行中，应该在一年左右的时间内完成。艾德。少

The verse syntax has generally been considered much looser than that of the prose since, for example, word order in verse might be modified by the requirements of the meters and formulas. Momma (1997) argued for a much stricter prosodical syntax However, even under Momma's rules, there still seems to be much freedom, even apparent randomness, in the word order of the modal auxiliary (M) and non-finite verb (V).Another approach to the composition of Old English poetry is the oral-formulaic theory proposed by scholars such as Magoun (1953). A recent study along these lines is Ogura (2006), who investigates the Meters of Boethius and concludes that they are so formulaic as to fit the mould of Anglos-Saxon poetry. Again, within this formulaic theory, both MV and VM orders can be found, apparently pretty randomly.The purpose of this project is to investigate the relationship between verse and prose syntax in Old English by examining constructions with complex predicates in both verse and pr … More ose in Old English. The results suggest that verse syntax is tighter than has so far been acknowledged. The results of my earlier study (Suzuki 2004)indicated that alliteration is in fact the crucial factor in determining the MV/VM word order in subordinate clauses of Beowulf.In this project I seek to apply this theory regarding the importance of alliteration in determining word order across a more comprehensive corpus of Old English verse and a wider variety of auxiliary types : modal constructions, participle constructions, and infinitive constructions. This project thus attempts to verify whether the tendencies observed in Beowulf can also be discerned in the other texts, pointing to their applicability to Old English verse as a whole. The results confirm these tendencies. A further purpose of this project is to create a new database specifically designed for exploring the word order determinants in Old English poetry. This database is still a work in progress and should be complet.ed in a year or so. Less