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Old English constructions with multiple predicates. By Ohkado Masayuki. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo, 2001. Pp. x, 229. Paper with CD-ROM. ¥7,400.00

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 April 2003

ELLY VAN GELDEREN
Affiliation:
English Department, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-0302 [ellyvangelderen@asu.edu]

Extract

This book describes the word order in sentences with a modal and a main verb, with an auxiliary and a present participle, and with an auxiliary and a past participle. The term MULTIPLE PREDICATE is defined as a construction “involving two predicates, one finite and the other non-finite” (1). The data mainly come from Ælfric's Catholic Homilies and the CD contains a list of files with the example sentences from the book. It is not clear (e.g., page 8) whether the author transcribed the text himself or used the Old English Dictionary e-text of the homilies (from page 44, it appears that he used the latter, since he uses other texts from that project).

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© 2003 Society for Germanic Linguistics

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