Reshaping of the Nominal Inflection in Early Northern West Germanic
Elżbieta Adamczyk
[NOWELE Supplement Series, 31] 2018. xxvii, 572 pp.
Elżbieta Adamczyk
List of John Benjamins publications for which Elżbieta Adamczyk plays a role.
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Subjects Corpus linguistics | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Historical linguistics | Morphology | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2021 A multifactorial account of analogical developments in Old English nominal paradigms Early history of the North Sea Germanic languages, Laker, Stephen and Hans Frede Nielsen † (eds.), pp. 4–26 | Article
The present paper focuses on the interaction of factors that conditioned analogical developments in Old English nominal paradigms. They include especially the absolute and relative frequency of occurrence, the salience of inflectional exponents, the formal inflectional overlap across paradigms,… read more
2019 The dynamics of changes in the early English inflection: Evidence from the Old English nominal system Developments in English Historical Morpho-Syntax, Claridge, Claudia and Birte Bös (eds.), pp. 9–34 | Chapter
This study examines the mechanisms of the reorganisation of the Old English nominal morphology, which embraced a range of phonological and analogical developments conditioned by a variety of factors deriving from different domains. The immediate consequences of these changes are most prominent in… read more
2018 Plural inflection in North Sea Germanic languages: A multivariate analysis of morphological variation Reorganising Grammatical Variation: Diachronic studies in the retention, redistribution and refunctionalisation of linguistic variants, Dammel, Antje, Matthias Eitelmann and Mirjam Schmuck (eds.), pp. 17–56 | Chapter
The present study explores the variation in the plural inflection of eight varieties of Frisian and English, focusing on irregular plural formations. The aim of the study is to identify and assess the significance of the factors which contributed to the preservation and emergence of irregular… read more
2014 Patterns of reorganization of the early English nominal system: The case of old English consonantal stems Unity and Diversity in West Germanic, III, Nielsen, Hans Frede † and Patrick V. Stiles (eds.), pp. 51–75 | Article
The present paper discusses the reorganization process of early English nominal inflection, investigating in detail the mechanism involved. The focus of the study is on the old English minor (unproductive) declensions which testify to a considerable departure from the inherited Proto-Germanic… read more