Fran Colman
List of John Benjamins publications for which Fran Colman plays a role.
Entitatives and Indo-European n-stems: Conversion, subjunction, and the substance-based coherence of old English weak declension classes Substance-based Grammar – The (Ongoing) Work of John Anderson, Böhm, Roger and Harry van der Hulst (eds.), pp. 225–259 | Chapter
2018 This chapter shows that the Indo-European morphophonological class of n-stems was increased by lexical derivation by conversion. The participation of members of the notionally defined set of entitatives in these conversions accords with the association of the feature ‘identification’ with this… read more
Monetary policy and Old English dialects English Historical Linguistics 2010: Selected Papers from the Sixteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 16), Pécs, 23-27 August 2010, Hegedűs, Irén and Alexandra Fodor (eds.), pp. 73–94 | Article
2012 Studies of Old English dialects are based heavily on manuscript texts, of which none survive from Anglo-Saxon East Anglia. But coins produced in the kingdom bear forms of personal names, potential evidence for an East-Anglian dialect. Although East Anglia in the eighth and ninth centuries came… read more
Old English I-Umlaut: A Unitary Sound Change? Dependency, Contrast and Non-Specification Headhood, Elements, Specification and Contrastivity: Phonological papers in honour of John Anderson, Carr, Philip, Jacques Durand and Colin J. Ewen (eds.), pp. 31–61 | Article
2005 Old English Stress: Amorphous? English Historical Linguistics 1992: Papers from the 7th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Valencia, 22–26 September 1992, Fernández, Francisco, Miguel Fuster Márquez and Juan Jose Calvo (eds.), pp. 65–80 | Article
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