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196 The syntax of early EnglishTable 6.5. Distribution ofparticles in Old English clauseswith auxiliary/modal verbsclause type before lexical verb after lexical verb totalmainINFL-medial 63 (90%) 7 (10%) 70INFL-final 11 (100%) — 11subordinateINFL-medial 60 (96.8%) 2 (3.2%) 62INFL-final 24 (100%) — 24total 158 9 167illustrated in (34). It is possible that these represent innovations with a newstructure (i.e. SIVO), and represent the beginning of the change by which particlesno longer mark the base position of the verb.(34) He wolde adræfan ut anne æelinghe wanted drive out a prince‘He wanted to drive out a prince’ (ChronB 82.18–19 (755)) 7The figures in table 6.4 are for subordinate clauses only. Further support forthis pattern of particle distribution comes from main and subordinate clauseswith an auxiliary or modal verbs and a non-finite verb, as shown in table 6.5. 8Slightly more main clauses than subordinate clauses have the particle afterthe non-finite verb, but they are not unambiguously INFL-final. For instance,there are no cases where a particle follows a verbal cluster in which the finiteverb comes last, a word order which must necessarily be INFL-final. Apartfrom the nine clauses Pintzuk found in her corpus, another twenty-oneinstances have come to light in the major Old English prose texts and therecould be more in other texts too. All of these are similarly not unambiguouslyINFL-final. Often the particle precedes a PP:(35) Hwæt synd a lytlan e he wolde habban up to hiswhat are the little (ones) which he wanted have up to hisrice?kingdom‘Who are the little ones he wanted to raise up to his kingdom?’(ÆCHom I, 9.138.6)7MS B of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is not included in the electronic texts in theDictionary ofOld English Corpus. Other manuscripts of the Chronicle do not have aparticle here.8The figures are for Pintzuk’s database. Texts not investigated by Pintzuk show asimilar distribution.