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IX.—Indirect Discourse in Anglo-Saxon
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2020
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The study of Indirect Discourse in Anglo-Saxon has hitherto received comparatively little attention. We occasionally meet with discussions of this construction in grammatical studies of selected Anglo-Saxon writings. Kühn and Wohlfarht, in their treatments of the syntax of the works of Ælfric, have done little more than to mention Indirect Discourse; Nader, however, has furnished a far more satisfactory account of it as found in the Beowulf. Such studies are as a rule of a sketchy character and are also extremely unsatisfactory owing to the restricted field within which the work has been done.
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page 345 note 1 Anglia, XI, 489.
page 345 note 2 Erdmann, Syntax der Sprache Otfrids, I, § 97-98. See also Z. f. d. Phil., VIII, 127, 289.
page 345 note 1 Hotz, The Subjunctive in Anglo-Saxon, § 4, a; Erdmann, Syntax der Sprache Otfrids, I, § 311.
page 345 note 2 Mätzner, Englische Grammatik, III, 423; Amer. Journal of Philology, V, 221.
page 345 note 1 Krickau, Der Accus. mit dem Infin. in der Englischen Sprache, p. 4.
page 345 note 1 See Mätzner: Englische Grammatik, III, 443, b.
page 345 note 1 Von Monsterberg Münckenau, “Der Infinitiv nach Wellen u s w. in den Epen Hartmanns von Aue,” Z. f. d. Phil., 18, 148 ff.
page 345 note 1 These examples are cited by Lüttgens, p. 19, bb. as Bede, 495 and 196 respectively; the edition of the Ecclesiastical History he has used is that of Wheeloc, who has inserted parts of Anglo-Saxon homilies at frequent intervals in the historical narrative. It is in these interpolations that this construction with sculan occurs. Bede offers no instances of this construction after a verb of saying.
page 345 note 1 Mather, The Conditional Sentence in Anglo-Saxon, p. 47.
page 345 note 1 The above general observations must suffice for this subject. A minute study of the Complex Indirect Sentence is reserved for a future paper.
page 345 note 1 J. G. Schmalz, “Lateinische Syntax,” § 227, I. Müller's Handbuch der Klassischen Altherthums-Wissenschaft, II, 325.
page 345 note 1 Ibid., § 224.
page 345 note 2 Mätzner, Englische Grammatik, III, 28.
page 345 note 1 See E. H. Spieker, “On Direct Speech introduced by a Conjunction,”—American Journal of Philology, v, 221.
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