York-Helsinki Corpus of Old English

Syntactic Annotation, Detailed table of contents



Introduction
Glossary
General principles
Heads
Modifiers
Complements
Form vs. function: extended labels
Case labels
Function labels
List of extended labels

Complements of adjectives
NUM + WINTRE/GEARE (adjective)
Predicates
Possessive pronouns labelled ADJP
Non-predicate adjectives

Participle Phrases (PTP)

Adverb Phrases (ADVP)
Modifiers of adverbs
Adverbs modified by NP/QPs of extent
Adverbs taking NP complements
NEAH, GEHENDE, FEOR
Other adverbs taking datives
Superlative adverbs plus genitive
Subclasses of ADVPS (locative, temporal, directional)
ADVPs of extent

Quantifier Phrases (QP)
Quantifiers as heads or modifiers
Floated quantifiers
Adverbial use of quantifiers
Uninflected EALL

Number Phrase (NUMP)
Number as head or modifier
The number AN
TWEGRA ELNA BRAD etc.
Complex number expressions (ONE LESS (THAN) FORTY, MORE THAN 300, etc.)
NUMPs as predicates
Separated numbers

Noun Phrases (NP)
Prehead modification of pronouns
Posthead modification
Separated modifiers
Possessive pronouns labelled NP
Appositives
Compound nouns
Compound Proper Names
Place names
Personal names
Temporal names
Clausal syntax of Noun Phrases
Arguments vs. adjuncts
Subjects
Subjects in tensed clauses
Subjects in non-tensed clauses
Subjects in poetry
Presentational THERE
Expletive IT
Other arguments
Reflexives (-RFL)
Foreign phrases acting as arguments
Dative of possession
Adjunct NPs
Temporal, locative and directional NPs
Left-dislocated NPs
Repeated subject pronouns

Prepositional phrases (PP)
Particle plus preposition sequences
Multi-word prepositions (MID +TY, BE SU+TAN, TO MIDDES, etc.)
Prepositions with empty objects
+TY L+AS +TE
Adverbial clauses headed by SWA
SWA +T+AT purpose/result clauses
Temporal SWA clauses including SONA SWA
Elements in specPP
NPs in specPP
ADVPs in specPP

Quotation Phrases (QTP)

X Phrases (XP)

Foreign Phrases, non-argument (LATIN)

Time expressions with+T+AS

NPs of extent (-EXT)

Interjection Phrases (INTJP)

WH-phrases

Conjunction
Conjunction of unlike constituents
EAC, SWYLCE, SAMOD, etc.
+AG+TER GE...GE, O+TER +TE...+TE
HW+A+TER...+TE...+TE
Conjoined structures with NEALLES and/or NA
NEALLES +T+AT AN +T+AT...
Elision
Elision in conjoined clauses
Elision in subordinate clauses under identity with the matrix
Elision in NPs and other phrases

Empty categories
Empty subjects
WH-operators and traces
Position of traces
Empty quantifier heads

Direct speech

Internal Structure of clauses
Internal structure of matrix clauses (IP-MAT)
Imperatives
UTON clauses
Parenthetical matrix clauses (IP-MAT-PRN)
Glosses (+T+AT IS...)
Parenthetical constructions with verbs of naming
Internal structure of subordinate clauses
Extraction from finite subordinate clauses
Clausal subjects
Restarts

Copular constructions
Predicates (-PRD)
Verbs which take a -PRD argument
Passive verbs taking predicates
Predicates in small clauses
Non-subject/predicate NPs in copular constructions

Expletive constructions
Extraposed clausal subjects
Expletive subjects with impersonal expressions
Expletive subjects with it-clefts
Expletives in temporal expressions
IS TO WIT THAT...

Subordinate clauses

Adverbial clauses (CP-ADV)
Bare CP-ADV
Adverbial +T+AS and +TY clauses
+TAM GELICOST +TE
GELICE &
SAM ... SAM

That-clauses (CP-THT)

Degree complements (CP-DEG)
SWILC +T+AT clauses

Comparative clauses (CP-CMP, CP-CMPX)
SWA X SWA and +TONNE comparatives
SWA comparatives
SWILCE comparatives
As if SWILCE comparatives
Like SWILCE comparatives
Corelative comparatives

Questions(CP-QUE)
Whether questions
WHETHER as WPRO or WQ

Exclamations (CP-EXL)

Relative clauses CP-REL)
SE +TE relatives
+T+AS clauses
Temporal +T+AS clauses
According as +T+AS clauses
+T+AT relatives
Temporal and locative relatives

Free relative clauses (CP-FRL)
Free relatives headed by a determiner
WH- Free relatives
Free relatives headed by +TE

Reduced relatives (RRC)

Clefts (CP-CLF)

Infinitival clauses (IP-INF, IP-INF-NCO)
Non-complement infinitives
Infinitival subjects in situ
Accusitive and infinitive constructions (ECM verbs)
Passives with infinitives (THE BOOK IS TO READ)
Tough-movement and similar constructions
Infinitival relatives

Small clauses (IP-SMC)
Small clauses with passivized subject
Tracing to small clauses
Small clauses with present participles

Absolutes (PTP-case-ABS)
Infinitive absolutes