The Cambridge History of the English Language Volume 1 Part 6 ppsx

... Descriptive Syntax of the Old English Charters (Mouton, 19 70), p. 17 7 2 31 6 .1 Map of areas of rhotacism 412 6. 2 New York City (r) by class and style (after Labov 19 66 ) 414 6. 3 Map of early ... Chase 19 81 and especially the essay byStanley 19 81 therein), the composition of Beowulf may be attributable to the latter part of the eighth century, when the Mercian kingdom,especially under Offa, ... would be Strang 19 70.Brunner 19 50 is the standard short history of English in German. Anotherimportant work is Lass 19 87, not a &apos ;history of the language& apos; but full of important historical...

... > PDE sat. Although the situation isobscure (for discussion of the short vowel see Lass 19 76 :13 2—4), in part at least because of the conservatism of the late Old English spellingsystem, ... aspect of the diphthongal system is uncertain and subject to fierce debate and the most controversial of these are discussed in §3.3.3 in the context of the development of the language. The situation ... toappear. The insular form was to disappear by the end of the twelfthcentury (see Ker 19 57:xxv-xxxiii, Keller 19 06) .That the letters of the alphabet and even the very style in which theywere...

... sceort'short', see Quirk & Wrenn (19 57:§ 56) and Brunner (19 65 :§§307 -11 ).A further type of formation is seen in the superlative of locationaladjectives, e.g. the points of the compass, where a new ... also for the later history of the language. In terms of Old English, the new phonemes /J,tf,d3/ were introduced, as well as [9] as anallophone of /x/. The incidence and distribution of /]/ was ... set of minor changesaffecting Late West Saxon (see Luick 19 14:§ 268 , Anm.3, Campbell 19 59:§284). The lengthening is not normally marked by grammarians of Old English, but below, for the sake of...

... represents the exact words of the reportedproposition, and when the subjects of the main clause and of the complement are the same. It is only occasionally absent if the complement represents the words ... lies(Or 1 1. 20.30) next to the homestead in which the dead man lies,or even genitive: (14 6) sio hea goodnes )>e he full is that high goodness PT he full is(Bo 34.84 .11 ) the great goodness of ... (DAT),Then is one port in south -of that land,j?one (ACC) man haet Sciringes heal 6 which one calls Skiringssalr(Or 1 1. 19 .10 )Then there is a port in the south of that country which is calledSkiringssalr.(Hatan...

... Kastovsky 19 68 :8ff., 96; Marchand 19 69 :15 fT.). The basic criterion used here is the derived status of the determinatum and the function of the determinant as one of the arguments of the underlying ... as Schabram (19 66 :85, 19 69 :10 1) has pointed out, such indications are far from reliable,because they are usually not based on a complete survey of the prosetexts. The existence of specifically ... Marchand 19 69 :391ff., Kastovsky 19 68 :93ff.).In the space available it is impossible to give a full summary of the range of deverbal derivatives, for which see Kastovsky (19 68 ). Instead the process...