The History of English Syntax

Lecture 8. The History Of English Syntax.The angle of diachronic approach many problems of English syntax have not been solved yet.Phrase syntactic english.Their further development.Types of syntactical relations btw words in the phrase.OE texts reveal a variety of types of sentences: simple, compound and complex.The word order can be relatively free.(what shall I sing?) or h? mihtest þu hit sw? hrædlice findan?In OE it was the inflection that showed what part of the sentence the meaningful word was.Types of syntactical relations between words in the phrase.