Yoko Iyieri PhD Thesis - Research@StAndrews:FullText - University ...

By contrast, the case in which ne/nor is employed instead may be
illustrated by the following example:
I may noght strecche up to the hevene
Mm hand, ne setten al in evene
This world, which evere is in balance (CA 35/1-3).
In this case, two different pieces of action are denied one after
another.
As a result of the semantic feature of and which connects
elements tightly under a single scope of negation, and is frequently
found in a context where the syntactic connection of elements is
fairly tight. For instance, and is often met with where two elements
are dominated by a single and shared preposition, as illustrated by
the following examples:
Of erf and wim men leue ic nogt (G&E 3079)
Sua that thar was na herberie
To Josep and his spouse Marie (EMH 63/5-6).
The constituents dominated by a single and common preposition are
by nature combined together under the scope of the preposition. In
the above examples, both erf and wimmen and Jose p and his spouse
Marie are a set of closely linked elements. It is not a difficulty that
they stay together under a single scope of negation as well.
Similarly, an infinitive marker can be shared by two elements
combined by and, as the following illustrates:
Vnto the fyfty day at the morne
They lefte not for to synge And Rede (SMA 3896-7).
Since the syntactic feature of this kind derives from the semantic
distinctions caused by the use of ne/nor and and, approximate
frequency of these cases would suffice to obtain a general picture.
Moreover, the exact number of the instances is in any case rather
difficult to count, since there are some examples in which and and
265