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Mary
Blockley.
Aspects of Old English Poetic Syntax: Where Clauses Begin.
Urbana: University of
Illinois Press, 2001.
xii, 248pp.
Hardback, ISBN
0252026063.
Publisher's
recommended price $39.95
Mary
Blockley uses
modern linguistics to tackle the thorny problem of how to interpret a
written
language that relied neither on punctuation nor on capitalization to
mark
clause boundaries and subordination.
Distinguished
by a remarkable combination of erudition and lucidity, Aspects of
Old
English Poetic Syntax provides new insight into the rules that
govern
syntactic relationships and indicates how these rules differ for prose
and verse. Blockley considers the functions of four of the most common
and most syntactically important words in Old English, as well as such
features of clauses as verb-initial order, negative contraction, and
unexpressed
but understood subjects. Picking up where Bruce Mitchell's classic Old
English Syntax left off, Blockley shows how such common words and
structures
mark the relationships between phrases and clauses.
Blockley
also
considers how the poetic tradition compensated for the loss in written
texts of the syntactic functions served by intonation and inflection.
Arguing
that verse relied instead on a prescriptively regulated, unambiguous
syntax.
she suggests principles that promise more complex and subtle
interpretations
of familiar texts such as Beowulf as well as a wealth of other
Old
English writings.
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