This work contributes to the research in the linguistic analysis of Old English with corpus-based lexical databases. In the specific area of Old English, which

Based on the surviving Old English textual material, as well as on Old English dictionaries and the relevant literature, this work studies the role of preverbs

Participial prepositions and conjunctions such as considering, during, considered and except are a comparatively recent phenomenon in the history of the English

This volume synthesizes recent approaches to the study of historical English and long-established philological scholarship. Using this synthesis, it casts doubt