Selected Papers from the Fourteenth International ... - STIBA Malang

54 Kristin Bech
I therefore hypothesize that this difference between coordinate and non-coordinate
clauses has consequences for what types of element may occur in the various word
order patterns, and for what verb types are found.
Tables 2–5 show the distribution of verb types in XVS, SVX and XSV noncoordinate
and coordinate clauses in early and late OE, and early and late ME. 5
This paper focuses on the following aspects of the tables (corresponding to the
boldface percentages):
Table 2. Verb types in early OE non-coordinate and coordinate clauses
Non-
coord.
cl.
Coord.
cl.
Word
order
patterns
With compl.
Early Old English
Without compl.
except ex. verbs copula Existential verb
No. % No. % No. % No. %
XVS 127 39.6 72 22.4 32 10.0 64 19.9
SVX 66 37.7 14 8.0 78 44.6 12 6.9
XSV 61 60.4 20 19.8 13 12.9 4 4.0
XVS 13 27.7 4 8.5 4 8.5 20 42.6
SVX 36 39.1 12 13.0 29 31.5 10 10.9
XSV 38 64.4 11 18.6 3 5.1 4 8.5
Table 3. Verb types in late OE non-coordinate and coordinate clauses
Non-
coord.
cl.
Coord.
cl.
Word
order
patterns
With compl.
Late Old English
Without compl.
except ex. verbs copula Existential verb
No. % No. % No. % No. %
XVS 133 50.6 38 14.5 33 12.5 51 19.4
SVX 94 40.9 26 11.3 89 38.7 15 6.5
XSV 53 61.6 12 14.0 15 17.4 4 4.7
XVS 12 24.5 7 14.3 11 22.4 16 32.7
SVX 45 34.6 34 26.2 29 22.3 18 13.8
XSV 25 59.5 8 19.1 6 14.3 3 7.1
5. Note that the tables should be read horizontally, not vertically. The percentages have been
calculated out of the total number of verbs (which equals the total number of clauses) in each
word order pattern, cf. the figures in Table 1. Consequently, the sums of the percentages for each
word order pattern in Tables 2–5 do not always add up to 100, since not all verbs, e.g., passives,
could be classified in terms of the categories operated with here.