Alfred Bammesberger | John Benjamins

Bammesberger, Alfred 2019 The meaning of Old English folcscaru and the compound’s function in Beowulf NOWELE 72:1, pp. 1–10 | Article

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 English Unity 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 2012 Old English æfnan and Legal Terminology, with Notes on Beowulf, 1106a-1108b NOWELE Volume 64/65 (April 2012), pp. 139–154 | Article

Bammesberger, Alfred 2011 Old English ambyre Revisited NOWELE 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 -warijaz NOWELE 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 / kai NOWELE Volume 44 (March 2004), pp. 91–100 | Article

Bammesberger, Alfred 2004 Lithuanian esmí and esú “I am”: On the Spread of the Thematic Present in Indo-European Languages Studies in Baltic and Indo-European Linguistics: In honor of William R. Schmalstieg, Baldi, Philip and Pietro U. Dini (eds.), pp. 19–26 | Chapter

Bammesberger, Alfred 2003 The Provenance of the Old English Suffix -estre NOWELE Volume 43 (September 2003), pp. 53–63 | Article

Bammesberger, Alfred 2001 Old English wūscbearn and the Apparent Failure of i-Umlaut in Compounds NOWELE Volume 39 (September 2001), pp. 115–122 | Article

Bammesberger, Alfred 1998 The Germanic Preterite-Present *ann/unn- NOWELE Volume 34 (December 1998), pp. 15–21 | Article

Bammesberger, Alfred 1998 Runic Frisian weladu and Further West Germanic Nominal Forms in - u NOWELE Volume 33 (March 1998), pp. 121–132 | Article

Bammesberger, Alfred 1996 Tu Preterite of Germanic Strong Verbs in Classes Four and Five NOWELE Volume 27 (March 1996), pp. 33–43 | Article

Bammesberger, Alfred 1995 The Paradigm of Germanic *aih/aig-u- and Notes on Some Preterite-Present Verbs NOWELE Volume 26 (August 1995), pp. 57–66 | 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 dós Historical Philology: Greek, Latin, and Romance, Brogyanyi, Bela and Reiner Lipp (eds.), pp. 41–46 | Article

Bammesberger, Alfred 1990 saisost and Desinential Metanalysis in Gothic NOWELE 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

Bammesberger, Alfred 1984 Die urgermanischen aoristpräsentien und ihre indogermanischen grundlagen Das Germanische und die Rekonstruktion der Indogermanischen Grundsprache: Akten des Freiburger Kolloquiums der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, Freiburg, 26–27 Februar 1981., Untermann, Jürgen und Bela Brogyanyi (Hrsg.), pp. 1–24 | Article