Feelings and Form in King Alfred's Psalter

The objective of the paper is to examine the syntax of the Experiencer verbs used in Old English prose translation of the Psalter and see how the constructions relate to the available range of types attested with the relevant verbs in the Old English period. The text of the Paris Psalter was examine...

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Published in:Language and Literary Studies of Warsaw 2013-01 (3), p.129-152
Main Author: Charzyńska-Wójcik, Magdalena
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anglo-Saxon period
Bible
English literature
Historical text analysis
Impersonal constructions
Literary translation
Old English
Prose
Religious literature
Syntactic structures
Syntax
Verbs
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Summary:The objective of the paper is to examine the syntax of the Experiencer verbs used in Old English prose translation of the Psalter and see how the constructions relate to the available range of types attested with the relevant verbs in the Old English period. The text of the Paris Psalter was examined in search of the verbs defined as Experiencers in the relevant literature. It turned out that the seventy-three occurrences of Experiencer verbs found in the text represent all major types of constructions in which Experiencer verbs were found in the Old English period. The most important finding of this paper is that the data from the Paris Psalter forced a re-examination of the traditional understanding of the term 'Experiencer verb' used with reference to Old English - from a cover term which subsumes the common properties of certain OE subjectless and impersonal constructions to what it really is - a semantically defined group of verbs which appear with an Experiencer argument.
ISSN:2300-5726