eþ ? ode the Finns, he thought, and Beormas spoke nearly the same language the words "Finnas" and "Beormas" are joined in a phrase by means of coordination.component members of a predicative phrase predetermine each other: eg cw æþ h ? (Said he) . This phrase is capable of producing a sentence.a subordinate phrase one word (adjunct) is subordinated to the other (head) word. The relations between the head and the adjunct fall under 2 main types: agreement and government.
1. By agreement we mean such a syntactical relationship in which the inflection of the head-word is the same in the adjunct. The OE agreement occurred in gender, number and case:
a) between noun (head) and adjective (adjunct): e. g. h? ec? mon mid langum scipum they arrived in long ships (Dat. case., plural, neuter); micle meras fersee big lakes with fresh water (Nom. case. plural, masculine). ) between demonstrative and other attributive pronouns (adjuncts) and noun (head): eg h? b? de on ГѕГ¦m lande he lived on that land (Dat. case., singular, neuter) ; m? ne dagas my days (Nom. case, plural, masculine); o nd ic for -Гѕon of Гѕeossum 3 eb? orscipe? t? ode and I therefore from that feast went away (Dat. case, singular, masculine).
2. The components are connected by means of government if the adjunct takes a grammatical form required by the head. Government doesn't imply any coincidence in form of the governing word and its adjunct. In OE a verb governed:
a) The Accus. Case of the object, expressed by a noun or a pronoun. The latter is then termed "directed": e. g. Гѕa Deniscan Гѕone cyninh ofsl? 3on "The Danes that king killed".
b) The Dative case of the object ( indirect ): e. g. Ohthere sГ¦de his hl? Forde Ohthere told his lord ; sw?-sw? w? foryfa Гѕ ? rum 3уltendum as we forgive offenders .
c) The Genitive case of the object (partitive complement): e. g. h? ГѕГ¦r sceolde b ? Dan westanwindes he was obliged to wait for me the western wind there .
a) An adjective may govern the Gen. or the Dat. case of the object: e. g. morþres scyldi 3 guilty of killing ; w æ s 3ehw æð er? þrum l ? ð "was everyone hateful to the other".
b). The notion of government also applies to a noun which may govern the Gen. case of another noun: e. g. hwales b? n whale bone and to some pronouns and numerals: eg d? 3ra 3 ehwilc each of the days ; Гѕara ? n one of them .
c). Prepositi...
