The primary purpose of this paper is to descriptively analyze the syntactic aspects of Beowulf. an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines. The manuscript of Beowulf is believed to have transcribed from an original by two scribes, because the handwriting of the two scribes is ill-matched. The discussion on the heroic expeditions of Beowulf and authorship and date of this work are excluded here, and so are the question as to form and meter, the and dialects* This research was supported by the Daegu University Research Grant, 2008. used in it. The main concerns of this paper are focused on the description of syntactic structures of phrase structures, such as NP, VP, and PrepP, and some syntactic aspects are also discussed on passive, extraposition, etc.
1. Introduction
2. Phrase Structures
3. Other Syntactic Structures
4. Conclusion