Alfred Bammesberger

List of John Benjamins publications for which Alfred Bammesberger plays a role.

Ever since Kemble (1840), buton folcscare (Beowulf, 73a) has been thought to mean ‘with the exception of the common land’. The Old English compound folcscaru is reliably attested in poetic texts in the sense ‘tribe, nation’; secondarily the meaning ‘province, land’ may have arisen, but nowhere… read more
Bammesberger, Alfred 2013 The Germanic Root *heuf- 'lament' and its Reflexes in Old EnglishUnity and Diversity in West Germanic, II, Nielsen, Hans Frede † and Patrick V. Stiles (eds.), pp. 225–236 | Article
Old English heofon (Christ and Satan, 343b) must not be interpreted as preterit in the plural, and therefore the form provides no support for positing a reduplicating verb OE hēafan ‘lament’ (< Gmc. *hauf-). The form heofon represents the infinitive OE hēofan. The Old English evidence fully agrees… read more
Bammesberger, Alfred 2011 Old English ambyre RevisitedNOWELE Volume 60/61 (January 2011), pp. 39–44 | Article
Bammesberger, Alfred 2010 Gothic tweihna-, Old English twegen, and Some Further Formations with Gmc. *twi-NOWELE Volume 58/59 (June 2010): The Gothic Language, Nielsen, Hans Frede † and Flemming Talbo Stubkjær (eds.), pp. 323–342 | Article
Bammesberger, Alfred 2008 Runic Names in -warijazNOWELE Volume 53 (May 2008), pp. 13–18 | Article
Bammesberger, Alfred 2007 The Etymology of Germanic *idis-NOWELE Volume 52 (October 2007), pp. 81–89 | Article
Bammesberger, Alfred 2004 Old English cæg "Key" And Frisian kei / kaiNOWELE Volume 44 (March 2004), pp. 91–100 | Article
Bammesberger, Alfred 2003 The Provenance of the Old English Suffix -estreNOWELE Volume 43 (September 2003), pp. 53–63 | Article
Bammesberger, Alfred 1998 The Germanic Preterite-Present *ann/unn-NOWELE Volume 34 (December 1998), pp. 15–21 | Article
Bammesberger, Alfred 1994 On the Prehistory of Old English sam-/som- "half"NOWELE Volume 24 (August 1994), pp. 3–14 | Article
Bammesberger, Alfred 1992 4. Griechisch thés, hés und dósHistorical Philology: Greek, Latin, and Romance, Brogyanyi, Bela and Reiner Lipp (eds.), pp. 41–46 | Article
Bammesberger, Alfred 1990 saisost and Desinential Metanalysis in GothicNOWELE Volume 16 (September 1990), pp. 93–98 | Article
Bammesberger, Alfred 1986 On the Germanic decades ‘20’ to ‘60’Germanic Dialects: Linguistic and Philological Investigations, Brogyanyi, Bela and Thomas Krömmelbein (eds.), pp. 3–8 | Article