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Reshaping of the Nominal Inflection in Early Northern West Germanic
Elżbieta Adamczyk
[NOWELE Supplement Series 31] 2018
► pp. 129–248

Chapter 3
Nominal inflection in Old English

Article outline
  • 3.1Introduction
  • 3.2Diatopic and diachronic dimension of the study
    • 3.2.1Early and Late Old English
    • 3.2.2Anglian and Saxon material
  • 3.3Characteristics of the restructuring process in Old English
  • 3.4Old English phonological developments in unstressed syllables
  • 3.5Data analysis
    • 3.5.1Corpus and methodological considerations
    • 3.5.2 i-stems
      • 3.5.2.1General characteristics
      • 3.5.2.2Restructuring of the i-stem paradigm
      • 3.5.2.3 Results of the investigation
    • 3.5.3 u-stems
      • 3.5.3.1General remarks
      • 3.5.3.2Results of the investigation
      • 3.5.3.3An excursus on sunu
    • 3.5.4Root nouns
      • 3.5.4.1General characteristics
      • 3.5.4.2 Results of the investigation
    • 3.5.5 r-stems
      • 3.5.5.1General characteristics
      • 3.5.5.2Results of the investigation
    • 3.5.6 s-stems
      • 3.5.6.1General characteristics
      • 3.5.6.2 Results of the investigation
      • 3.5.6.3An excursus on Old English cild
    • 3.5.7 nd-stems
      • 3.5.7.1General characteristics
      • 3.5.7.2Results of the investigation
    • 3.5.8Dental stems
  • 3.6Summary of the results and overview of the tendencies
  • 3.7Taxonomic implications of the study
  • 3.8Conclusions
  • Notes