The More the Merrier: Grammar of the Instrumental Case
June 3, 2025
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as posted by the channelExplaining the grammar behind the construction "The more, the merrier" and the instrumental case, a remnant of the Old English case system.
The first video in our new "Knotty Topics in Historical Linguistics" series. Let us know what you think!
#grammar #oldenglish #historicallinguistics #instrumentalcase
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Sources:
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
Online Etymology Dictionary (Etymonline)
Bruce Mitchell & Fred C. Robinson, A Guide to Old English, 6th edition (Blackwell, 2001)
Malcolm Andrew & Ronald Waldron, eds., The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript (U of Exeter P, 1996)
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