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Uses modern linguistics to tackle the problem of interpreting a written language that relied neither on punctuation nor on capitalization to mark clause boundaries and subordination. This linguistic re-interpretation provides new insight into the rules that govern syntactic relationships and indicates how these rules differ for prose and verse.

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Aspects of Old English Poetic Syntax

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      Publisher: MO - University of Illinois Press
      Publication Date: 2/13/2001 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780252026065, 978-0252026065
      ISBN10: 0252026063

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Uses modern linguistics to tackle the problem of interpreting a written language that relied neither on punctuation nor on capitalization to mark clause boundaries and subordination. This linguistic re-interpretation provides new insight into the rules that govern syntactic relationships and indicates how these rules differ for prose and verse.

      Trade Review
      ADVANCE PRAISE "An innovative and foundational work that will raise the interpretive sophistication of literary scholars... A work of great intellectual power." -- Geoffrey Russom, author of "Beowulf" and Old Germanic Meter

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