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Article: Disintegration of the nominal inflection in Anglian: the case of i-stems.(LINGUISTICS)
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- Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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ABSTRACT
An evident tendency which can be observed in the behaviour of the Old English nouns belonging originally to the i-stem type is that they reveal a marked fluctuation between the inherited and the innovative (productive) paradigm, manifested in their adopting the inflectional endings of both. The apparent hesitation between the two types of inflection can be seen, for instance, in forms of the nominative and accusative plural of masculine paradigm, where alongside the expected OE -e ending, forms in -as, extended from the productive a-stems paradigm, are attested (e.g. OE wine ~ winas 'friends'). It is believed that through various phonological processes ...
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