Sentence connection as an expression of medieval principles of representation

Historical Discourse Analysis

“…For example, several works have treated Old English (OE) a 'then'; it has been seen as a foregrounder, a foreground "dramatizer," a sequencer of events, a marker of colloquial speech, a peak marker, and a narrative segmenter (Enkvist 1972(Enkvist , 1986Enkvist and Wårvik 1987;Wårvik 1990Wårvik , 1995aWårvik , 1995b; see also Hopper 1979Hopper , 1992 or primarily as a shift marker (Kim 1992). Similar functions have been attributed to the cognate thô in Old Saxon and Old High German (Wilbur 1988;Betten 1992). OE adverbials such as hBr 'here' and nE 'now', as well as a variety of forms in the later periods (e.g.…”

Fictive questions in conditionals?

“…On the other hand, the early history of V1conditionals emphasizes the change of perspective required by the historical study of syntax from a functional point of view (cf. Stolt 1990;Betten 1992;Kuzmenko 1996). Discussing the role of V1 order in Old Icelandic prose, Kuzmenko (ibid, pp.…”