Changes in progress in late Northumbrian: the extension of -s as genitive and plural marker

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674321000435" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674321000435</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1360674321000435" target="_blank" >10.1017/s1360674321000435</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Changes in progress in late Northumbrian: the extension of -s as genitive and plural marker

Original language description

Some of the linguistic changes which are crucial in the history of English and have traditionally been ascribed to Middle English can already be observed in late Northumbrian. One of these changes is the extension of genitive singular -es from the a-stems to other noun classes. Another is the spread of nominative/accusative plural -as from the masculine a-stems to the neuters and to other declensions. The aim of this article is to establish the actual scale on which these two interparadigmatic analogical changes are found in the glosses to the Lindisfarne Gospels and to the Durham Collectar, both dating from the tenth century. The present study intends to shed more light on the process of morphological restructuring affecting the declensional system of late Northumbrian, and has three main aims: (a) to determine the pattern of dissemination of the innovative inflectional endings; (b) to establish which variables are significant in these analogical processes: declension, type and token frequency, grammatical context, Latin lemma, demarcation; and (c) to account for the different developmental tendencies of these two linguistic changes.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

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Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

English Language and Linguistics

ISSN

1360-6743

e-ISSN

1469-4379

Volume of the periodical

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Issue of the periodical within the volume

2022

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

26

Pages from-to

697-722

UT code for WoS article

000771268100001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85127907219