Chapter 5: Morphology
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Ferdinand von Mengden
Abstract
Old English is in many respects a typical Indo-European language. This is particularly true of its morphological categories and its complex inflectional systems. It is mainly due to this complexity that this chapter cannot treat all aspects of OE morphology in full detail. It therefore focuses on the most important inflectional systems of Old English. Morphological word-formation patterns are necessarily treated only marginally. Moreover, there is a considerable degree of dialectal and diachronic variation in Old English which also affects in the morphological paradigms. This variation cannot be covered here comprehensively. This chapter therefore has a strong bias towards the later stages of the West Saxon variety - the dialect and period from which the greatest share of our extant sources is transmitted. For more comprehensive accounts, including the details of the diachronic and diatopic variation, I refer the reader to the relevant sections in Hogg and Fulk (2011) as well as to the older, but still valuable works by Campbell (1959) and Brunner (1965).
Abstract
Old English is in many respects a typical Indo-European language. This is particularly true of its morphological categories and its complex inflectional systems. It is mainly due to this complexity that this chapter cannot treat all aspects of OE morphology in full detail. It therefore focuses on the most important inflectional systems of Old English. Morphological word-formation patterns are necessarily treated only marginally. Moreover, there is a considerable degree of dialectal and diachronic variation in Old English which also affects in the morphological paradigms. This variation cannot be covered here comprehensively. This chapter therefore has a strong bias towards the later stages of the West Saxon variety - the dialect and period from which the greatest share of our extant sources is transmitted. For more comprehensive accounts, including the details of the diachronic and diatopic variation, I refer the reader to the relevant sections in Hogg and Fulk (2011) as well as to the older, but still valuable works by Campbell (1959) and Brunner (1965).
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Table of Contents V
- Abbreviations VII
- Chapter 1: Introduction 1
- Chapter 2: Pre-Old English 8
- Chapter 3: Old English: Overview 32
- Chapter 4: Phonology 50
- Chapter 5: Morphology 73
- Chapter 6: Syntax 100
- Chapter 7: Semantics and Lexicon 125
- Chapter 8: Pragmatics and Discourse 140
- Chapter 9: Dialects 160
- Chapter 10: Language Contact: Latin 187
- Chapter 11: English Contact: Norse 202
- Chapter 12: Standardization 220
- Chapter 13: Literary Language 236
- Chapter 14: Early Textual Resources 254
- Index 271
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Table of Contents V
- Abbreviations VII
- Chapter 1: Introduction 1
- Chapter 2: Pre-Old English 8
- Chapter 3: Old English: Overview 32
- Chapter 4: Phonology 50
- Chapter 5: Morphology 73
- Chapter 6: Syntax 100
- Chapter 7: Semantics and Lexicon 125
- Chapter 8: Pragmatics and Discourse 140
- Chapter 9: Dialects 160
- Chapter 10: Language Contact: Latin 187
- Chapter 11: English Contact: Norse 202
- Chapter 12: Standardization 220
- Chapter 13: Literary Language 236
- Chapter 14: Early Textual Resources 254
- Index 271
