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- Title
Conjunctive Formations in Old English and Modern English A Comparative Study.
- Authors
Salih, Rashwan Ramadan; Mahmood, Basima Othman
- Abstract
This paper aims to explore the formation and ordering principles of constituents in conjunctive formations in both Old English (OE) and Modern English (ME). We seek to identify the main similarities and differences between the two eras. While Haeberli (2002) and Baker (2012) argue that conjunctive relations in OE affect sentence word order, Ringe and Taylor (2015) propose similarities between OE and ME in the formation of conjunctive relations. To shed light on this topic, the paper examines corresponding OE prose (with translations into ME). The study draws upon the extensive statistical research of Cichosz (2021) for OE data and collects sample translation in ME from prominent online translated data. Preliminary findings suggest that linguistic factors significantly influence conjunctive formations in both OE and ME. As such OE and ME differ in various aspects such as vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, orthography, and word order. Despite these differences, there are notable similarities between the two languages, and ME has evolved from OE. Thus, most of the conjunctive cues are changed and reshaped orthographically and structurally. However, the function and usage of conjunctive formations to connect ideas and indicate clause relationships were similar.
- Subjects
ENGLISH language; WORD order (Grammar); ORTHOGRAPHY &; spelling; COMPARATIVE studies; COMPARATIVE linguistics
- Publication
Alustath, 2024, Vol 63, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0552-265X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.36473/tnm5mp03