The article is a systematic, corpus-based account of Latin’s influence on the position Old English (OE) adnominal adjectives. While multiple studies phrase-level syntax suggest that source-text interference may have been partly responsible for placing adjective after head noun, this observation has so far received little quantitative underpinning. present offers detailed comparison OE target no...

There is a widely accepted chronology of sound laws, covering the transition from Proto-West Germanic to Old English, found in every handbook English. This contains laws whose only function cancel effects previous ones, such as ‘retraction’ and ‘smoothing’, reversing ‘fronting’ ‘breaking’. allocated relatively short period between arrival Anglo-Saxons 5th century oldest Early English sources ar...

Abstract Crafted things abound in The Phoenix , from the ornamented trees phoenix’s paradise, to gem-like bird itself: world of poem, beauty is synonymous with skilful design material things. In spite this emphasis on construction and creation, poem also foreshadows necessary destruction all ornaments world. This paper reconsiders crafted including not only famous description phoenix itself, bu...

This paper assesses the evidence for nuU subjects in Old English, demonstrating that in the Old English gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels subjects are omitted in a way not found in classical West Saxon texts. The obvious hypothesis that this difference is simply due to the nature of the text as a gloss of a Latin original, and thus teUs us nothing about the syntax of Old English is unlikely to b...

Meizi Piao. 2012. An Analysis of I-Umlaut in Old English. SNU Working Papers in English Linguistics and Language X, XX-XX Lass (1994) calls the period from Proto-Germanic to historical Old English ‘The Age of Harmony’. Among the harmony processes in this period, i-umlaut has been considered as ‘one of the most far-reaching and important sound changes’ (Hogg 1992, Lass 1994) or as ‘one of the le...

In a recent data survey, the comparison of the 2011 data to the early 1990s data for English and French loans in Korean adaptation has revealed that the overall frequency of final vowel insertion and that of variable insertion and/or no vowel insertion after the word-final postvocalic plosives [b d g p t k] are significantly decreased and increased, respectively, no matter whether the plosives ...

Hippocrates and Galen, the translations made from Greek to those from Arabic, and using the more recent translations in preference to older ones: for example, the translation of the Royal book of 'Ali ibn al'Abbas made by Stephen of Antioch (Liber regalis) rather than the older version of Constantine the African (Pantegni). But, beyond this, he adds his personal stamp. He provides what is proba...

Old English had a prefix ge-, which frequently appeared on verb forms but which has proven extremely difficult to characterize. It was particularly common in past-participial forms, yet was never obligatory with them (the way its cognates became obligatory in German and Dutch) and was also regularly found on other forms. It is a matter of debate and controversy whether it served as a true deriv...