Abstract
Old English verbs of tasting like beorgan, drincan and etan may take the accusative, the genitive or the of-phrase. The number of occurrences of these verbs with the genitive or the of-phrase is not so large, but we notice the fact that Latin ex-/de-phrases could be rendered by the of-phrase and that both the genitive and of-phrase were used in a partitive sense. In this short paper I try to show that the Old English genitive object was in the process of being replaced by the of-phrase even in a limited context.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 517-522 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Neophilologus |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2008 Jul 1 |
Keywords
- Genitive, Of-phrase
- Old English
- Verbs of tasting
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Linguistics and Language
- Literature and Literary Theory
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Ogura, M. (2008). Old english verbs of tasting with accusative/genitive/of-phrase. Neophilologus, 92(3), 517-522. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-007-9098-0