The origin of the cliticness of the west Germanic definite article: the case of Beowulf

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  • Janez Orešnik

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4312/linguistica.24.1.383-389

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The origin of the cliticness of the west Germanic definite article, the case of Beowulf

Abstract

The present paper is mainly concerned with the definite ar­ ticle of Beowulf. The literature about the West Germanic definite article has always allotted a prime place among the old Germanic texts to this poem: it is undisputably archaic (Kuhn 1933: 105, D. Hofmann 1959:189), and suitable for statistical genera­lisations. Its more than 6,000 hemistichs contain about 300 in­stances of the. definite article (Lichtenheld 1872:332).

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Published

1. 12. 1984

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How to Cite

Orešnik, J. (1984). The origin of the cliticness of the west Germanic definite article: the case of Beowulf. Linguistica, 24(1), 383-389. https://doi.org/10.4312/linguistica.24.1.383-389