Cover -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- Spelling conventions -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Aims of this study -- 1.2 Limits of this study -- 1.3 This study in the context of previous research -- 1.4 The structure of this thesis -- 2 Syntactic Dislocation -- 2.1 The nomenclature of this study -- 2.2 The constituent order of English -- 2.2.1 Old English -- 2.2.2 Middle English -- 2.2.3 Early Modern English -- 2.2.4 Present Day English -- 2.2.5 Summary -- 2.3 Definition and subtypes of syntactic dislocation -- 2.3.1 Definition of syntactic dislocation -- 2.3.2 The syntactic dislocation of objects -- 2.3.3 The syntactic dislocation of complements -- 2.3.3.1 The dislocation of the subject complement -- 2.3.3.2 The dislocation of the object complement -- 2.3.4 The syntactic dislocation of obligatory adverbials -- 2.3.5 Evidence from contemporaries -- 2.4 Summary -- 3 Poetic Factors and Rhetorical Devices -- 3.1 Metre -- 3.1.1 Classification -- 3.1.2 Variability in the syllable structure of words -- 3.1.3 How to assess metrical constraints -- 3.2 Rhyme -- 3.2.1 Classification -- 3.2.2 Pronunciation matters -- 3.2.3 How to assess dislocations due to rhyme -- 3.3 Figures of Speech -- 3.3.1 Hyperbaton -- 3.3.2 Parallelism -- 3.3.3 Chiasmus -- 3.3.4 Emphasis -- 3.4 The mystery of biblical Hebrew poetry -- 3.5 Summary -- 4 The History of Congregational Singing in England -- 4.1 "there may be songe an hymne, or such lyke songe" -- 4.1.1 The Song -- 4.1.2 The Hymn -- 4.1.3 Psalms and their metrical paraphrases -- 4.1.4 The Canticle -- 4.1.5 Definition of congregational song -- 4.1.6 Terminological confusion -- 4.2 Metrical Psalms in England before the Reformation -- 4.3 'Hardware reset' -- 4.4 Metrical Psalmody -- 4.5 "Out-Sternholding Sternhold" -- 4.6 From Watts to Wesley -- 4.7 Hymns Ancient and Modern -- 4.8 "20th-Century Blues".

4.9 "like a crack'd saints' bell jarring in the steeple" -- 4.10 Summary -- 5 The Corpus of Congregational Song -- 5.1 Compilation of the corpus -- 5.1.1 Design parameters -- 5.1.2 Word count -- 5.1.3 Selection criteria of authors and texts -- 5.2 Description of the corpus -- 5.2.1 Overview -- 5.2.2 Description of selected authors and songbooks -- 5.2.2.1 The 16th century -- 5.2.2.2 The 17th century -- 5.2.2.3 The 18th century -- 5.2.2.4 The 19th century -- 5.2.3 Chronological gaps and clusters -- 5.3 Summary -- 6 Analysis -- 6.1 Methodological and terminological preliminaries -- 6.1.1 Statistical methods -- 6.1.1.1 Percentage calculation: Identifying the basic population -- 6.1.1.2 Other statistical terminology -- 6.1.1.3 Statistical significance of the data -- 6.1.1.4 Correlation analysis -- 6.1.2 Exceptions from the counting process -- 6.1.2.1 Counting dislocated objects -- 6.1.2.2 Counting dislocated complements -- 6.1.2.3 Counting dislocated adverbials -- 6.1.2.4 Split constituents -- 6.2 Overall results -- 6.2.1 The 16th century -- 6.2.2 The 17th century -- 6.2.3 The 18th century -- 6.2.4 The 19th century -- 6.2.5 The complete chronology -- 6.3 The impact of poetic factors and rhetorical devices -- 6.3.1 Metre and rhyme -- 6.3.2 Rhetorical devices -- 6.4 Syntactic analyses -- 6.4.1 The three subtypes of syntactic dislocation -- 6.4.2 Constituent order -- 6.4.3 The role of auxiliaries -- 6.4.4 The length of the dislocated constituent -- 6.4.5 The internal phrase structure of the dislocated constituent -- 6.4.5.1 The phrase structure of dislocated objects -- Lord -- 6.4.5.2 The phrase structure of dislocated complements -- 6.4.5.3 The phrase structure of dislocated obligatory adverbials -- 6.5 The connection between syntactic criteria and poetic factors -- 6.5.1 Object dislocation revisited -- 6.5.2 Complement dislocation revisited.

6.5.3 Dislocation of obligatory adverbials revisited -- 6.6 Summary -- 7 Comparison: Syntactic dislocation in other genres -- 7.1 Possible origins -- 7.1.1 English Bible translations -- 7.1.2 Middle English verse -- 7.1.3 Early Modern English verse: ballads -- 7.2 Object dislocation in Early and Late Modern English secular poetry -- 7.3 Summary -- 8 Conclusion -- 8.1 Syntactic dislocation in congregational song -- 8.2 Syntactic dislocation and religious language -- 8.3 The results of this study in the light of corpus and text linguistics -- 8.4 Outlook -- Appendices -- Appendix A -- Chronological lists of authors and titles included in the corpus1 -- The 16th century -- The 17th century -- The 18th century -- The 19th century -- Appendix B -- List of authors, including life dates, denominations and position in society and church -- The 16th century -- The 17th century -- The 18th century -- The 19th century -- Appendix C -- Syntactic dislocation per author, split up into syntactic functions -- Appendix D -- Lists of texts for comparison (chapter 7), sample size in words -- Bible version Title / Chosen Text Year sample size -- Author Title Year sample size -- Author Title Year sample size -- Author Title Year sample size -- List of References.