STRUCTURAL PECULIARITIES OF OLD ENGLISH NP IN GENERATIVE FRAMEWORK
Keywords:
generative grammar, Old English syntax, noun phrase, X-bar theory, modif cation, word order.Abstract
The article considers peculiarities of the Old English syntax in general with the specif c reference to OENoun phrase. The paper highlights basic structural components of NP used in Old English prose and verse.
The author makes a brief comparison between structural peculiarities of NP in OE and ModE. The results
of the analysis are interpreted in the light of a modern linguistic approach namely X-bar theory
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