Pronouns and Word Order in Old English

<p>First published in 2003 this is a study of the syntactic behaviour of personal pronoun subjects and the indefinite pronoun <i>man</i> in Old English. It focuses on differences in word order as compared to full noun phrases. In generative work on Old English noun phrases are 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 were good reasons to believe that <i>man</i> should be grouped with personal pronouns. This book explores the investigation carried out with the aid of the Toronto Corpus which confirmed this hypothesis.</p>