Penelope Thompson

List of John Benjamins publications for which Penelope Thompson plays a role.

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Thompson, Penelope 2012 The lexicalisation of syncope: Derivational affixes in West Saxon adjectives English Historical Linguistics 2008: Selected papers from the fifteenth International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL 15), Munich, 24-30 August 2008, Sauer, Hans and Gaby Waxenberger (eds.), pp. 133–146 | Article
Syncope is a prosodically motivated process removing medial vowels in longstemmed disyllabic Old English adjectives e.g. hālig ‘holy’ when inflected: nom/acc.pl.neut. hālgu *hāligu. Syncope should not affect short-stemmed forms such as hefig ‘heavy’ e.g. nom/acc.pl.neut. hefig *hefgu (Campbell… read more