... > PDE
sat.
Although the situation is
obscure (for discussion of
the
short vowel see Lass 19 76 :13 2 4), in part
at least because of the conservatism of the late Old English spelling
system, ... aspect
of the diphthongal system is uncertain and subject to fierce debate and
the most controversial of these are discussed in §3.3.3 in the context of
the deve...
... (Mouton, 19 70),
p. 17 7 2 31
6 .1 Map
of
areas
of
rhotacism
4 12
6 .2 New York City
(r) by
class and style (after Labov 19 66)
414
6.3 Map
of
early Anglo-Saxon England
419
6.4 The products
of
... Chase 19 81 and especially the essay by
Stanley 19 81 therein), the composition of Beowulf may be attributable to
the latter part of the eighth centu...
... observable in Old English, and the
development of the present-day system is something which began at
the very earliest stage of the emergence of English as a separate
language.
3.4 .1. 2 Adjectives
Adjectives ... set of minor changes
affecting Late West Saxon (see Luick 19 14: 26 8, Anm.3, Campbell
19 59: 28 4). The lengthening is not normally marked by grammarians...
... head off to-cut
(Or 5 12 .24 2 .16 )
he commanded
his
head
to be cut off.
20 5
Richard M. Hogg
3.3 .2. 2 Campbell
(19 59:
§§ 71 99)
is the most useful source for traditional
descriptions of Old English ... that it is part of the system of English, but also
that
**She has arrivedyesterday
is not (** signals that the pattern is not part
of
the
structure of th...
... whom
]>e
heo gelyfden
PT they believed
{Bede 3 15 .22 2 .22 )
that they did not want to obey the god in whom they believed.
This type of relativiser occurs in the poetry and prose of all periods.
However,
... j
24 24 )
because it (the Mediterranean) washes more violently on the southern
shore than it does on the northern.
Yet again, the verb may be zero as in (23 3),...
... Berndt
19 82: 52; Serjeantson 19 35 :2 81, 28 6 and Strang 19 70:367 place these in
the 2nd and partly even in the 3rd period).
Loans of this and the next period were mainly introduced via the
spoken language, ... 19 00 2: 21 2) is a fairly
plausible explanation of the linguistic facts.
After 10 66, the situation of Scandinavian must have changed
radically. Already,...
... Kastovsky
19 68:8ff.,
96; Marchand
19 69 :15 fT.). The basic criterion used here is the derived status of the
determinatum and the function of the determinant as one of the
arguments of the underlying ... distinguish from
synthetic agent nouns
of
the type
landbuend
(cf. §5.4 .2. 2 .1) ,
and
often
we
find nominal
and
adjectival doublets
(cf.
Karre
19 1...
... at the same time
from his maternal grandfather's (cf. Woolf
19 39 :10 1,
10 5, 11 8, 13 1 -2) .
Women's names certainly participated in the permutation system, as
when King
Heretic
of Deira ... in the North of England.
The nature of non-northern varieties of Old English is attested by a
rather wider range of sources. Although there are no northern
counter...