Nelson Goering
Biographic Data
| ID | 1647775 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nelson Goering |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nelson |
| FAMILY NAME | Goering |
| SIGNATURE | GOERING N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2565-3369 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A sound change that never was
In the 1880s, Sievers proposed that in Old English words such as * feorhes , the loss of the post-consonantal * h caused compensatory lengthening of the vowel: fēores. Since there are no unambiguous traces of this sound change in later English, widespread analogical restitution of the short vowels was assumed (e.g. from feorh ). The evidence for this lengthening is largely metrical. I argue that while Sievers is correct that words like often need…
Loanwords and Native Words in Old and Middle Icelandic
Metre and clitics in Old English and Old Saxon
Kaluza's Law and Secondary Stress
Kaluza’s law is a proposed restriction in the metre of Beowulf against the resolution of light‐heavy sequences: words like cyning ‘king’ can only resolve and count as the equivalent of a single heavy syllable under more restricted circumstances than can words such as wudu ‘wood’. There has been debate about how to define these ‘restricted circumstances’, with many investigators claiming that this limitation holds only under ‘secondary stress’ (so…
Phonological Evidence for Resolution in Early Middle English
Research Article| October 01 2021 Phonological Evidence for Resolution in Early Middle English Nelson Goering Nelson Goering Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (2021) 120 (4): 465–489. https://doi.org/10.5406/jenglgermphil.120.4.0465 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Nelson Goering; Phonological Evidence for Resolu…
(Proto-)Germanic Alliterative Verse
The Terrible Bite of Fire
Line 1122 of Beowulf represents a problem where the findings of metrics, historical phonology, and the reading of the manuscript are in conflict with one another. I revive and adapt Tolkien's proposal to emend lāðbite līċes līġ ealle forswealg to lāðbite līġes līċ eall forswealg “the cruel bite of fire swallowed up the entire bodies”. This emended reading allows the line to be scanned in accordance with Kaluza's law without any complications to t…
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(Proto-)Germanic Alliterative Verse
The Terrible Bite of Fire
Line 1122 of Beowulf represents a problem where the findings of metrics, historical phonology, and the reading of the manuscript are in conflict with one another. I revive and adapt Tolkien's proposal to emend lāðbite līċes līġ ealle forswealg to lāðbite līġes līċ eall forswealg “the cruel bite of fire swallowed up the entire bodies”. This emended reading allows the line to be scanned in accordance with Kaluza's law without any complications to t…
Kaluza's Law and Secondary Stress
Kaluza’s law is a proposed restriction in the metre of Beowulf against the resolution of light‐heavy sequences: words like cyning ‘king’ can only resolve and count as the equivalent of a single heavy syllable under more restricted circumstances than can words such as wudu ‘wood’. There has been debate about how to define these ‘restricted circumstances’, with many investigators claiming that this limitation holds only under ‘secondary stress’ (so…
Phonological Evidence for Resolution in Early Middle English
Research Article| October 01 2021 Phonological Evidence for Resolution in Early Middle English Nelson Goering Nelson Goering Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Journal of English and Germanic Philology (2021) 120 (4): 465–489. https://doi.org/10.5406/jenglgermphil.120.4.0465 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Nelson Goering; Phonological Evidence for Resolu…
Metre and clitics in Old English and Old Saxon
A sound change that never was
In the 1880s, Sievers proposed that in Old English words such as * feorhes , the loss of the post-consonantal * h caused compensatory lengthening of the vowel: fēores. Since there are no unambiguous traces of this sound change in later English, widespread analogical restitution of the short vowels was assumed (e.g. from feorh ). The evidence for this lengthening is largely metrical. I argue that while Sievers is correct that words like often need…
Loanwords and Native Words in Old and Middle Icelandic
Linguistics and language evolution (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Physics (3 works) · Acoustics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · History (2 works) · Lexicography and Language Studies (2 works) · Medieval Literature and History (2 works)