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Table 4. Verb types in early ME non-coordinate and coordinate clauses
Non-
coord.
cl.
Coord.
cl.
Word
order
patterns
With compl.
Early Middle English
Verb types and word order 55
Without compl.
except ex. verbs copula Existential verb
No. % No. % No. % No. %
XVS 79 38.7 40 19.6 28 13.7 45 22.1
SVX 140 41.7 40 11.9 115 34.2 30 8.9
XSV 81 55.9 24 16.6 19 13.1 9 6.2
XVS 16 38.1 12 28.6 9 21.4 5 11.9
SVX 55 43.3 22 17.3 29 22.8 18 14.2
XSV 55 60.4 24 26.4 5 5.5 7 7.7
Table 5. Verb types in late ME non-coordinate and coordinate clauses
Non-
coord.
cl.
Coord.
cl.
Word
order
patterns
With compl.
Late Middle English
Without compl.
except ex. verbs copula Existential verb
No. % No. % No. % No. %
XVS 17 13.8 12 9.8 6 4.9 74 60.2
SVX 109 43.8 26 10.4 74 29.7 34 13.7
XSV 68 45.6 33 22.2 17 11.4 18 12.1
XVS 23 35.9 5 7.8 4 6.3 20 31.3
SVX 90 40.2 33 14.7 61 27.2 24 10.7
XSV 150 56.2 53 19.9 21 7.9 25 9.4
• Existential verbs in the XVS pattern. OE XVS coordinate clauses have a higher
proportion of existential verbs than non-coordinate clauses. In ME, the distribution
is inverse (see 3.1).
• Verbs with complement in the XVS pattern. In OE, XVS non-coordinate
clauses have a higher proportion of verbs with complement than coordinate
clauses. In early ME, the distribution is equal, whereas in late ME the highest
proportion of XVS clauses with verbs with complement is found in the coordinate
clause category (see 3.2).
• Verbs with complement in the XSV pattern. There is a preponderance of verbs
with complement in this pattern, both in non-coordinate and coordinate
clauses, and in all four periods (see 3.3).
• Copulas in the SVX pattern. The proportion of copulas is higher in SVX noncoordinate
clauses than in coordinate clauses in the three first periods. In late
ME, the proportion is approximately the same in the two clause types (see 3.4).