Essays about: "stæfcræft"

Found 2 essays containing the word stæfcræft.

  1. 1. Regular Word Order in The Wanderer

    University essay from Engelska institutionen

    Author : Andrew Cooper; [2011]
    Keywords : Wanderer; eardstapa; Anglo-Saxon; Old English poetry; syntax; stæfcræft; phrase structure; free word order;

    Abstract : Background: Grammars of Old English held at least until the 1960s that word orderin Anglo-Saxon texts was essentially “free”, that is, determined entirely or primarily by stylistic choice rather than syntactic rules.  Although prose word order has been shown to be regular in several models, the same cannot be said of poetry. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Syntactic Origin of Old English Sentence Adverbials

    University essay from Engelska institutionen

    Author : Sara Maria Sundmalm; [2009]
    Keywords : Old English; adverbials; base-generation; syntactic structure;

    Abstract :   Languages rely on grammatical rules, by which even such variable constituents as adverbials are affected. However, due to the many different positions in Old English sentences taken up by adverbials, it is easy to wrongfully assume that there is an absence of grammatical rules regarding adverbials in Old English. READ MORE