The old English weak verbs

a diachronic and synchronic analysis

Detlef Stark

• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Jahr: 2011
• ISBN drucken:
  9783484301122
• eBook-ISBN:
  9783111357140
• Thema: Languages & Linguistics
• Thema: Linguistics

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER ONE: THE DATA
• 1. The Germanic verb system
• 2. The Old English verb system
• 2.1 Major characteristics
• 2.2 Weak verb classes
• 3. Variations in the OE system
• 3.1 Early Old English versus Late Old English
• 3.2 Dialectal variation in the OE period
• 4. Summary
• CHAPTER TWO: THE DIACHRONIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE OLD ENGLISH WEAK VERBS
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Diachronic rules
• 2.1 Glide Vowel Coalescence
• 2.2 Vocalization
• 2.3 West Germanic Gemination
• 2.4 Aufhellung
• 2.5 Breaking
• 2.6 Palatalization
• 2.7 i-umlaut
• 2.8 j-deletion
• 2.9 Apocope
• 2.10 Syncope
• 2.11 OE Vowel Reduction
• 3. Diachronic development of the OE weak verbs
• 3.1 Class I
• 3.2 The weak verbs of classes II and III
• 4. Theoretical issues
• 4.1 Phonological change in standard generative phonology
• 4.2 Diachronic evidence and generative phonological theory
• 4.3 Recoverability and productivity
• CHAPTER THREE: A SYNCHRONIC ANALYSIS OF THE OLD ENGLISH WEAK VERBS
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Restructuring of underlying lexical representations
• 3. The j formative
• 4. Degemination
• 5. Schwa-insertion
• 6. Synchronic derivations of the OE weak verbs
• 6.1 Class I
• 6.2 The weak verbs of classes II and III
• CHAPTER FOUR: THE TRANSFER OF OE WEAK VERBS OF CLASS I TO CLASS II
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Stages of transfer
• 2.1 Loss of the j formative
• 2.2 A two-paradigm system
• 3. Reasons for the transfer
• 4. Analogy
• 5. Conclusion
• APPENDIX
• BIBLIOGRAPHY