Early Middle English Dialectology: Problems and Prospects

Laing, Margaret; Lass, Roger

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“…Due caution must be exercised when taking mediæval sources to faithfully represent the diachronic ancestor of vernacular varieties attested in the modern era (cf. Laing & Lass ); it would appear, nevertheless, that at least some modern forms with sonorant deletion in fact descend from forms with epenthesis. This is certainly the assumption of Russell () and Schrijver (), who both suggest that the svarabhakti vowel was deleted at a late (late Middle or even early Modern Welsh) date, followed by regular deletion that only affected [r] after coronals.…”

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Welsh svarabhakti as stem allomorphy

Iosad

2016

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In this paper I propose an analysis of the repairs of sonority sequencing violations in South Welsh in terms of a non-phonological process of stem allomorphy. As documented by Hannahs (2009), modern Welsh uses a variety of strategies to avoid word-final rising-sonority consonant clusters, depending in part on the number of syllables in the word. In particular, while some lexical items epenthesise a copy of the rightmost underlying vowel in the word, others delete one of the consonants in a cluster. In this paper, I argue that at least the deletion is not a live phonological process, and suggest viewing it as an instance of stem allomorphy in a stratal OT framework (Bermúdez-Otero 2013). This accounts for the lexical specificity of the pattern, which has been understated in the literature, and for the fact that cyclic misapplication of deletion and diachronic change are constrained by part-of-speech boundaries.

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Welsh svarabhakti as stem allomorphy

Iosad

2016

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“…McIntosh et al (1986) provides invaluable maps for a number of high-frequency, closed-class lexical items in later ME. The wealth of data provided by the Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English offers the tantalizing prospect of being able to push such work further even for one of the periods most affected by paucity of sources (see especially Laing & Lass 2006), although whether the extant sources are sufficient to analyse word geography for any but the highest-frequency words remains to be tested in detail. Work that is not driven (solely) by philological analysis of morphological or phonological criteria has had some success in identifying regional trends with regard to type frequency of loanwords of different origins (especially Scandinavian) in ME 316 P H I L I P D U R K I N and in later dialects.…”

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Mackems, Geordiesandram-raiders: documenting regional variation in historical dictionaries

Durkin

2015

English Language and Linguistics

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The article examines the challenges encountered by historical dictionaries in documenting regional variation in lexis, and in recording and describing the association of lexical items with particular regionally based linguistic identities. After a short section looking at general issues in labelling the regional distribution and provenance of lexical items in historical dictionaries, it looks in detail at the OED's treatment of three test cases: Mackem 'person from Sunderland or Wearside'; pet as a term of endearment or form of address; and ram-raid and related terms. All three have some connection with the north-east of England, but this differs greatly in each case: ram-raid (probably) originated in Tyneside, but there is now little awareness of this either inside or outside the north-east; pet did not originate in the north-east, nor is it restricted to use in this region, but it is widely recognized as a marker of north-eastern (or sometimes specifically Tyneside) linguistic identity; Mackem has little currency outside the north-east, but within the region it has some importance in signalling a distinctive Sunderland or Wearside linguistic and cultural identity. The article places these different lexical histories in the context of current research on enregisterment of lexis, and examines how definitions, labelling, descriptive notes and carefully selected quotation evidence can all be pressed into service in attempting to present nuanced accounts of the histories of such lexical items in a historical dictionary.

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“…More information about the LAEME corpus and the principles of tagging can be found in the LAEME website (Laing and Lass 2008, Introduction, Chapters 3 and 4), and in Laing and Lass (2006). More information about the LAEME corpus and the principles of tagging can be found in the LAEME website (Laing and Lass 2008, Introduction, Chapters 3 and 4), and in Laing and Lass (2006).…”

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31 Middle English: Dialects

Williamson

2012

Handbücher Zur Sprach- Und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 34.1

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Early Middle English Dialectology: Problems and Prospects

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Welsh svarabhakti as stem allomorphy

Welsh svarabhakti as stem allomorphy

Mackems, Geordiesandram-raiders: documenting regional variation in historical dictionaries

31 Middle English: Dialects

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