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Peer reviewedPintzuk, Susan; Kroch, Anthony S. – Language Variation and Change, 1989
Analyzes the rightward movement of noun and prepositional phrases in the Early Old English poem "Beowulf." Evidence is provided for heavy noun phrase shift, with a characteristic major intonational boundary between the main verb and the postponed noun phrase, and preposition phrase extraposition, where the intonational boundary was much…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Language Patterns, Language Variation, Nouns
