This essay serves as an attempt to examine various hapax legomena in the Old English poem Exodus from an etymological perspective in order to more conclusively determine its date of composition. Exodus is somewhat unique among Old English epic poems in its proportion ofhapax legeomena, having over 150 examples in under 600 surviving lines. Its date of composition is ofparticular scholarly inter...

This thesis attempts to create a more comprehensive catalogue of the appearance of the word aglæca throughout the Old English corpus. While the majority of these instances of the word appear in Beowulf, it also appears in such texts as Christ and Satan, Juliana, The Whale, Andreas, Daniel, Elene, and several of the Riddles from The Exeter Book. While Klaeber’s widely accepted binary glossing of...

The aim of this journal article is to study recursivity in terms of morphological process feeding in the formation of Old English, thus dealing with the relationship that holds among the major lexical creation processes of affixation (suffixation and prefixation), compounding and zero-derivation. The analysis is based on the ascription of each of the predicates to one of the morphological proce...

• geis quite slippery and has eluded really satisfactory description – let alone analysis – despite getting considerable attention since the 19th century. • I’m in the middle of a large-scale corpus study of the prefix, trying to get a proper handle on its syntax and semantics in order to develop a better theory. • Today I will present some intermediate results from the ongoing study and lay ou...

This paper offers an account of i-umlaut in Old English based on lexical minimality: the elimination of redundancies from, in this case, the phonological sub-entry in the lexicon. And the notation is that of Anderson & Ewen (1987), which is based, crucially for what follows, on simplex features which may combine in varying proportions. These assumptions combine to favour system-dependent unders...

Adult speakers of different free stress languages (e.g., English, Spanish) differ both in their sensitivity to lexical stress and in their processing of suprasegmental and vowel quality cues to stress. In a head-turn preference experiment with a familiarization phase, both 8-month-old and 12-month-old English-learning infants discriminated between initial stress and final stress among lists of ...