Speaker:\tSverre Stausland The predecessor of the Modern English weak verbs with a past tense in Remaining Schedule May Speaker: Sverre Stausland Title: Vowel Weakening in Old West Saxon Date: April 2 (Monday—note the special date and time!) Time: 5:30 Location: 32D-831 The predecessor of the Modern English weak verbs with a past tense in -ed is the Old English second weak conjugation. In West Saxon, the main dialect of Old English, the past […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3965"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4004,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3965\/revisions\/4004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTitle:\t\t\tVowel Weakening in Old West Saxon
\nDate:\t\tApril 2 (Monday<\/b>—note the special date and time!)
\nTime: \t\t5:30
\nLocation:\t\t32D-831<\/P><\/p>\n
\n-ed is the Old English second weak conjugation. In West Saxon, the
\nmain dialect of Old English, the past tense forms of these verbs
\nexhibit both the vowel ‘a’ and ‘o’: ‘andswarade ~ andswarode, wundad ~
\nwundod’, corresponding to Modern English ‘answered’ and ‘wounded’. The
\nexplanation given in the grammars of Old English is that the ‘o’,
\nwhich goes back to an older ‘u’, stems from the verb forms where an
\noriginal *u followed in the ending. I raise an alternative hypothesis
\nby which the ‘o’ (< ‘u’) originated in medial syllables through vowel\nreduction. A statistical analysis of the verb forms in the largest Old\nWest Saxon manuscript shows that ‘o’ is significantly more common in\nmedial syllables than in final syllables, but that there is no\ncorrelation between the distribution of ‘a’ and ‘o’ and where an\noriginal *u followed in the ending. The explanation in the grammars is\ntherefore not supported. I suggest that the vowel has been reduced in\nmedial syllables because vowels in medial syllables are shorter than\nin final syllables.<\/P><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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