Anna Wojtyś
List of John Benjamins publications for which Anna Wojtyś plays a role.
Articles
2024 Loss of wiþer -words in English Keys to the History of English: Diachronic linguistic change, morpho-syntax and lexicography, Porck, Thijs, Moragh S. Gordon and Luisella Caon (eds.), pp. 191–211 | Chapter
The element wiþer is documented in Old English as a separate lexeme and a prefix. Altogether, Bosworth-Toller’s An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary records 69 wiþer-lexemes, which implies that wiþer- was relatively productive and flexible. Generally, wiþer- was added to words with the sense of ‘against’;… read more
2014 The demise of a preterite-present verb: Why was unnan lost? Contact, Variation, and Change in the History of English, Pfenninger, Simone E., Olga Timofeeva, Anne-Christine Gardner, Alpo Honkapohja, Marianne Hundt and Daniel Schreier (eds.), pp. 61–82 | Article
The group of Old English preterite-present verbs, originally comprising twelve items, was considerably reduced so that only six have survived to the present day. The present paper focuses on the fate of the verb unnan ‘grant’, with an attempt to account for its disappearance from the language.… read more