Pronouns and Word Order in Old English

by Linda van Bergen

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First published in 2003, this is a study of the syntactic behaviour of personal pronoun subjects and the indefinite pronoun man , in Old English. It focuses on differences in word order as compared to full noun phrases. In generative work on Old English, noun phrases have usually divided into two categories: 'nominal' and 'pronominal'. The latter category has typically been restricted to personal pronouns, but despite striking similarities to the behaviour of nominals there has been good reason