The influence of Latin on Old English adjectival postposition

The article is a systematic, corpus-based account of Latin’s influence on the position Old English (OE) adnominal adjectives. While multiple studies phrase-level syntax suggest that source-text interference may have been partly responsible for placing adjective after head noun, this observation has so far received little quantitative underpinning. present offers detailed comparison OE target noun phrases containing postnominal adjectives with their Latin counterparts to determine exact extent which arrangement syntactic calque from foreign language. study found while fair number postposed did copy originals, placement could be accounted through reference tendencies characteristic (i.e. displays different degrees “verbalness” or part heavy phrase). Therefore, it appears translated texts do not excluded treated particular suspicion in concerned