... observable in Old English, and the
development of the present-day system is something which began at
the very earliest stage of the emergence of English as a separate
language.
3. 4 .1. 2 Adjectives
Adjectives ... 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 an
allophone o...
... 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 ... overthrow the temple, which he
did.
11
Indicative is also associated with events that are very likely to occur, and
with general truths, cf. ( 13 3a) (p. 235 ) and (1...
... Carr 19 39 :30 9ff.) but it would seem
unjustified to deny the existence of genitive compounds (see Nickel eta/.,
19 76 :11 ,
20) in view of the behaviour of words such as
domesdxg,
cristesboc.
These ... but in
view
of
the wider range
of
the
functions
of
their determinants they have been treated separately.
5.4.2 .3. 3
Noun/Adjective + present participle formati...
... John Flasket, 16 00: sig.B4
v
. Facsimile edn. Menston: Scolar Press,
19 73.
34 . Peacham 15 93: 12 3.
35 . As (33 ).
36 a. Bartholomew Fair, II.ii .30 1. Acted 16 14, printed 16 31 . Text as in (19 a), VI 42.
Sylvia ... sometimes Tea.
(Pope 17 14)
Sylvia Adamson
632
36 b. The Alchemist, I.iii .10 2 3. Acted 16 10, printed 16 12. Text as in (19 a),
V 31 2 .
36 c. The Alche...
... (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 Anglo-Saxon England
419
6.4 The products
of
... monuments (Page
19 73)
80
3. 2 Futhark from Kylver, Gotland, ca 400 (Page 19 73)
81
3. 3
Old
English futhorc (Dickins, 19 32 ). Reproduced
by
courtesy...
... 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 ... is to say the phoneme system of West Saxon at the time of
vElfric, ca 10 00. Having established that point of reference ( 3. 3 .1) we
trace, in
3. 3 .3,...
... that it is part of the system of English, but also
that
**She has arrivedyesterday
is not (** signals that the pattern is not part
of
the
structure of the language, or at least of
the
variety ... treatment see
Maling (19 71) and now McCully & Hogg (19 90).
3. 3 .3 For an introduction to this area Quirk & Wrenn (19 57) is the best of the
more element...
... Berndt
19 82:52; Serjeantson 19 35 :2 81, 286 and Strang 19 70 :36 7 place these in
the 2nd and partly even in the 3rd period).
Loans of this and the next period were mainly introduced via the
spoken language, ... Only the meaning of a lexical item of the donor language is
transferred to the receptor language, when either: (a) the meaning of
some lexical item...
... at the same time
from his maternal grandfather's (cf. Woolf
19 39 :10 1,
10 5, 11 8, 13 1-2).
Women's names certainly participated in the permutation system, as
when King
Heretic
of Deira ... varieties of Old English - Late West Saxon (Brunner
19 55,
Chatman 19 58, Hockett 19 59, Wagner 19 69), Mercian (Kuhn
19 39 ,
Dresher 19 78, 19 80), and general (Ku...