Studies in the Syntax of Lindisfarne Gospels 1918 HC by Morgan Callaway, Jr.

Excerpt from Studies in the Syntax of the Lindisfarne Gospels: With Appendices on Some Idioms in the Germanic Languages
The present instalment of my projected Studies in the Syntax of the "Lindisfarne Gospels" is restricted to an investigation of the Participle and of the Infinitive. The main object of this instalment is to determine whether the syntax of these verbals in the Northumbrian dialect differs essentially from that in the West-Saxon dialect as set forth in the writers monographs on the Participle and the Infinitive in the latter dialect. The investigation is based upon a statistical reading of the four Lindisfarne Gospels and of their Latin originals, as given in W. W. Skeat's The Holy Gospels: Anglo-Saxon and Northumbrian Versions, Cambridge, 1871-1887. In the study of each verbal, I have attempted to make my statistics complete, and have habitually given an account of the Latin correspondents of the Northumbrian gloss, and in the more doubtful constructions have cited the parallel passage in the Rushworth version of the Gospels, which latter has been read entire, although no account is taken thereof except in the way here indicated. Occasional omissions and misclassifications are inevitable, but I hope that they will not prove so numerous or so serious as to invalidate the trustworthiness of this investigation.
As the Lindisfarne Gospels is merely an interlinear gloss, and in many respects a faulty one, a larger question at once presents itself, whether or not such a gloss can give any trustworthy evidence as to the normal syntax of the dialect in which it is written.
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