Tytuł:

The merger of OE pyncan and pencan

Tytuł publikacji grupowej:

Token

Twórca:

Ogura, Michiko

Słowa kluczowe:

Old English ; Middle English ; ‘impersonal’ constructions ; merger

Abstrakt:

The development of Modern English think is often explained by the morphological merger of the two verbs þencan ‘to think’ and þyncan ‘to seem’ in early Middle English. This paper exemplifies that it is not the confusion between personal construction of þencan and ‘impersonal’ constructions of þyncan but the loss of contrast between < -e- > and < -i- > in the Northern dialect and other dialects, which leads to the merger of the two verbs that occurred with the present forms þence and þince, as well as the merger between < -u- > and < -ou- > in the preterite forms þohte and þuhte.

Miejsce wydania:

Kielce

Opis fizyczny:

S. 175-190

ISSN:

2299-5900

Wydawca:

Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego w Kielcach

Data wydania:

2022

Identyfikator:

doi:10.25951/4895

Język:

angielski

Jest częścią:

Token : A Journal of English Linguistics

Ma część:

Vol. 14/2022

Typ:

tekst

Format:

application/pdf