A descriptive syntax of the Ormulum 1st Edition by Robert Allen Palmatier ISBN 3111001091 9783111001098

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ISBN 10: 3111001091 
ISBN 13: 9783111001098
Author: Robert Allen Palmatier

In this study, Palmatier offers a systematic syntactic analysis of the twelfth‑century English poetic work Ormulum (by the Augustinian canon Or Orm). He treats the Ormulum’s language as a field for descriptive syntax, seeking to articulate the “sets of rules for organising words in phrases, words and phrases in clauses and clauses in clusters” as manifested in Orm’s text. The book (137 pages) is part of the Janua Linguarum. Series Practica (volume 74) published by de Gruyter Mouton. 

Palmatier’s approach is fundamentally descriptive rather than theoretical: he does not impose an abstract generative model but rather works from the corpus of the Ormulum, categorising and exemplifying syntactic phenomena (such as phrase‑structure types, clause relations, word‑order patterns) as they actually occur in the text. While I do not have access to the full content in this response, one can infer that his analysis covers such matters as clause subordination, coordination, word‑order permutations, phrase‑internal structure, and perhaps the interplay of morphology and syntax in the Middle English dialect of Orm. The value of the work lies both in its detailed empirical investigation of a major Middle English text and in its contribution to historical syntax of English.

A descriptive syntax of the Ormulum 1st Table of contents:

• Introduction

  • Purpose and scope of the study

  • Historical background of the Ormulum

  • Methodological approach

• List of Symbols and Abbreviations

  • Notation used throughout the analysis

• Major Elements of the Clause

  • Subject, predicate, object

  • Clause structure and word order

• Minor Elements of the Clause

  • Modifiers, adjuncts, and complements

  • Prepositional phrases and adverbials

• Clause Types and Sentence Patterns

  • Declarative, interrogative, imperative forms

  • Coordination and subordination

• Syntactic Variation and Stylistic Features

  • Dialectal influences

  • Rhythmic and poetic constraints

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