BEOWULFに見えるINFLECTED INFINITIVE
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In spite of many an uninflected infinitives in various uses in Beowulf, there appear in this work only 19 examples of inflected infinitives. Taking into consideration the stage of the OE. period at which this work was written in poetry, it seems that all these inflected infinitives should, as suggested by Onions and Jespersen, be taken as of adverbial and adjectival uses rather than of noun use, that is, 14 adverbial infinitives, of which 3 expressing 'direction towards', 3 expressing purpose', 8 expressing 'relation', and 5 adjectival infinitives which specify the foregoing noun. The classification of infinitives according to their uses is, of course, of a delicate nature, in which indeed not infrequently 'doctors disagree', but a certain degree of the authenticity of classification can be expected if one deals with it in a correct historical point of view of the English language, not being given to the linguistic sense which, if suitable to the understanding of ModE., should not be applied to the study of OE. Thus the writer endeavours to make clear the grounds on which the classification of each inflected infinitive should be made, quoting the concerned passages in Beowulf one by one, and sometimes exemplifying passages in other works than Beawulf in order to study the corresponding expressions in Latin with a view to clarifying the correct meaning of OE. wordings; furthermore, in some instances, relevant problems are referred to in order to understand the questions more fully, such as the freedom and independence of each element in OE. sentences, which is, so to speak, the afterglow of the older Indo-Germanic syntax, some dubious points in Mr. Clark Hall's translation, the process of gradual change of ' beon+inflected inf.' from the retroactive to non-retro-active construction, 'habban+inflected inf.' expressing necessity and even simple futurity like 'have yet to do' in ModE.
- 財団法人日本英文学会の論文
- 1955-10-15
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