... traditional studies of word order are Andrew (19 34), Fries
(19 40),
Bacquet (19 62 ), Shannon (19 64 ), Reszkiewicz (19 66 ), Pillsbury
(19 67 ),
Brown (19 70), Carlton (19 70) and Gardner (19 71) . More recent
studies ... Only the meaning of a lexical item of the donor language is
transferred to the receptor language, when either: (a) the meaning of
some lexical i...
... 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 the language, or at least of
the
variety ... Mitchell & Robinson
(19 86) and Quirk & Wrenn (19 57) are the most widely used. The former is
based on Early West Saxon, the latter on Late West Saxon. Luic...
... Descriptive Syntax of
the
Old English Charters (Mouton, 19 70),
p. 17 7 2 31
6 .1 Map
of
areas
of
rhotacism
412
6. 2 New York City
(r) by
class and style (after Labov 19 66 )
414
6. 3 Map
of
early ... 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 ce...
... > 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...
... sceort
'short', see Quirk & Wrenn (19 57:§ 56) and Brunner (19 65 :§§307 -11 ).
A further type of formation is seen in the superlative of locational
adjectives, e.g. the points of
the
compass, where a new ... also for the later history of the language. In terms of Old English,
the new phonemes
/J,tf,d3/
were introduced, as well as [9] as an
allophone...
... represents the exact words of the reported
proposition, and when the subjects of the main clause and of the
complement are the same. It is only occasionally absent if the
complement represents the words ... lies
(Or
1
1. 20.30)
next to the homestead in which the dead man lies,
or even genitive:
(14 6) sio hea goodnes )>e he full is
that high goodness PT he...
... 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 ... as Schabram (19 66 :85,
19 69 :10 1) has pointed out, such indications are far from reliable,
because they are usually not based on a complete survey of th...
... varieties of Old English - Late West Saxon (Brunner
19 55,
Chatman 19 58, Hockett 19 59, Wagner 19 69 ), Mercian (Kuhn
19 39,
Dresher 19 78, 19 80), and general (Kuhn 19 61 , 19 70). Except for
Kuhn, these ... 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...