Albert Morey Sturtevant
Biographic Data
| ID | 5778707 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Albert Morey Sturtevant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Albert Morey |
| FAMILY NAME | Sturtevant |
| SIGNATURE | STURTEVANT A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kansas |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1921 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1957 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Analogy and Leveling in Old Icelandic
The verbs bregða ‘to dart, brandish’, brá : brugðum, brugðenn , and drekka ‘to drink’, drakk: drukkum, drukkenn belong to the 3rd ablaut series. The past participles brugðenn : drukkenn are phonetically irregular, in that we should expect here the α-umlaut of the radical vowel u > o: *brugðanar > *brogðenn (cf. ONorw. brogðenn), *drunkanar > *drokkenn (cf. *sunkwanar > sokkenn ‘sunk‘). It is obvious that the radical vowel u in brugðenn : drukkenn…
Postconsonantal *W in the two Gothic Types Skadus “shadow” and Triggws “faithful”
NotesCf. Wolfgang Krause, Handbuch des Gotischen, §§49, 3; 88, 3; Braune, Gotische Grammatik10, §40.Cf. Max Jellinek, Geschichte der gotischen Sprache, §35, a, and the literatlire there cited. Streitberg (Gotisches Elementarbuch5–6, §89) recognizes but does not explain the discrepancy between the two types, skadus and triggws. For the laryngeal theory, see especially W. P. Lehmann, Proto-Indo-European Phonology, p. 36 ff.In the type þius/þiwi s ‘…
The Apocope of the Final Vowel e ( i ) in the Imperative Singular Forms of the Weak ē Verbs in Old Norse
Theα-Umlaut of u > o in the Old Norse Verbal System
NotesWolfgang Krause in his Abriß der Altwestnordischen Grammatik (Halle [Saale], 1948) mentions (§18, c; p. 11) the fact that a-umlaut of u > o was prevented “durch unmittelbar folgendes ggw, wobei das -w- das umlauthindernde Moment ist: tuggenn ( Goth. p̃aúrsus:PN *p̃urRuR > p̃urr ‘dry.’Cf. Kock, Arkiv, XII, 241 ff.: cf. *skuuē > *skugguē>Goth. skuggwa:ON skugge ‘shadow.’Cf. Noreen, Altisländische und Altnorwegische Grammatik4, §112, 1; Bethge …
Notes on Gothic Forms
The verbal reduplicating prefix. If the verbal stem in Gothic contained an initial cluster of two consonants, only the initial consonant was transferred to the prefix, except for the indivisible clusters sk and st (no examples of sp are recorded). The few cases of these two types of transference preserved in Wulfila's Gothic are: type 1 fraisan ‘to attempt’: faífrais, gretan ‘to weep’: gaígrot, flokan ‘to lament’: faíflok, slepan ‘to sleep’: saís…
Certain Old Norse Secondary Formations
The primary type of these two consonant clusters represents the PGmc. status when the two consonants were not due to the contraction of an intermediate vowel, whereas the secondary was the result of this contraction. In the primary type both Gothic and Old Norse show that l exerted an occlusive force on the following ð; cf. PGmc. *stĕ-staðĕ > *stĕ-stal-ð > Goth, stai-stal-d [not *stai-stal-þ] ‘acquired’; PGmc. *halðĕ > PN *hal-ð > *hal-d [not *ha…
Further Old Norse Secondary Formations
Certain Old Norse secondary formations were discussed in Lg. 29.26-33 (1953). Here I shall continue the discussion by adding examples which at the time of my previous article I had not yet investigated
Reflexive und intransitive Verba im älteren Westgermanischen
Gothic Miscellanea
Leveling in Old Icelandic Paradigms
Leveling of the radical vowel in the plural paradigm of the consonantal r -stems denoting family relations. In the plural paradigm of the substantive consonantal declension, i -umlaut of the radical vowel originally occurred only in the nom.-acc. form, since only here did the end syllable contain the vowel i. This vowel status is regularly preserved in the monosyllabic consonantal stems; cf. fφtr (* fōt-iR ) fóta fótum fφtr (* fōt-iR ), from fótr…
Norsk målsoga
Miscellaneous Gothic Notes
NotesCf. liuhtjai liuhaÞ (Matt. 5: 16), klismo klismjandei (Cor. 8: 1) with abba, atta.Cf. Jellinek, op. cit., §196, Anm. 2; Kieckers, Handbuch der vgl. got. Grammatik, p. 257.Cf. sōk-jan:sök-i-da ( is = α∧ντoν̂ on a level with mizdōns *seinaizōs > is = α∧ντoν̂), especially since the nom. construction is much less frequent (cf. Eng. "He is his [own) master.").Cf., e.g., τιs βασιλερ́S = has þiudans (instead of has þiudanē), Luke 14: 31.Cf. the nom…
Notes on Certain Gothic Forms
NotesThat Goth. sitan represents a PG *sitan without j-suffix, as Streitberg (Zur germ. Sprachgeschichte, pp. 15 ff.; Urgerm. Grammatik, p. 286) assumes, is, in view of the j-suffix in North and West Germanic, extremely doubtful; cf. Hirt, Handbuch des Urgerm., II, 193.The regular nominative plural ending -jus of the u-declension is occasionally preserved (cf. aggil-jus alongside aggil-eis, diakaun-jus, [galiuga-]xrist-jus) but never the correspo…
The Neuter Gender of old Norse fljōđ and sprund
Analogical Formations in Old Norse
Critical Notes on Old Norse Phonology
1. Māl ‘speech’ h , as in WGmc., with loss of h before l ; cf. * maþl > * maχl > * mahl > ON māl : OHG OS mahal. It is certain that in ON þ did disappear without the intermediate shift to χ > h after a long radical vowel, thus in * nāþlu > n ǭl ‘needle’ = Goth. nēþla , where in WGmc. this loss did not occur (OE nǣdl , OFris. nēdle , OS nādla , OHG nādala ). If ON þ after a short radical vowel underwent the shift in question, we should expect the …
Analogical Weak Preterite Forms in Old Icelandic
The purpose of this paper is to show the probable point (or points) of contact between the strong and the weak verbal systems, which resulted in the development of a new analogical weak preterite form with dental suffix (which either existed alongside the original strong form or entirely displaced it). Cases of borrowing from an already existent weak verb (such as sφkta ‘sank’ for sǫkk, hangða ‘hung’ for hekk ) will therefore be omitted. It is, h…
Concerning Gothic Intransitive Verbs
The Confusion of the Neuter i̯a-Declension with the Feminine īn-Declension in Old Norse
Certain Phonetic Tendencies in Old Norse
Die vorgeschichtliche Betonung der germanischen Substantiva und Adjectiva
Notes on Old Norse R
The Lengthening of Vowel before -tt < *-χt in Old Norse
Shift of Spirant to Stop in a Combination of Two Spirants in North and West Germanic
Some Critical Notes on Old Norse Phonology
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Die Endung des Partizipium prateriti der germanischen starken Verben
Initial h before l, n, r in Old Icelandic: A Type of Associative Consonant Groups
Initial h before I, n, r disappeared in ONorw. at a preliterary date but was regularly retained in Olcel. (cf. Noreen §289). In Olcel. this initial h - was often lost, or an initial h - was often added to I, n, r, through association between words having initial hl, hn, hr and words having initial l, n, r. This associative process was due to resemblance in meaning or in form aside from the initial consonants in question. After the loss or the acc…
The Consonant p in Gothic stōp: Stōpum
The infinitive form of this verb is standan. The stem of the verb must therefore have been *stađ-. Accordingly the preterite singular form stōþ must represent an earlier *stōđ ; hence we should have expected a preterite plural form *stōdum(= *stōđum) instead of stōþum
Some Critical Notes on Old Norse Phonology
Shift of Spirant to Stop in a Combination of Two Spirants in North and West Germanic
The Lengthening of Vowel before -tt < *-χt in Old Norse
Notes on Old Norse R
Certain Phonetic Tendencies in Old Norse
Die vorgeschichtliche Betonung der germanischen Substantiva und Adjectiva
The Confusion of the Neuter i̯a-Declension with the Feminine īn-Declension in Old Norse
Concerning Gothic Intransitive Verbs
Analogical Formations in Old Norse
Critical Notes on Old Norse Phonology
1. Māl ‘speech’ h , as in WGmc., with loss of h before l ; cf. * maþl > * maχl > * mahl > ON māl : OHG OS mahal. It is certain that in ON þ did disappear without the intermediate shift to χ > h after a long radical vowel, thus in * nāþlu > n ǭl ‘needle’ = Goth. nēþla , where in WGmc. this loss did not occur (OE nǣdl , OFris. nēdle , OS nādla , OHG nādala ). If ON þ after a short radical vowel underwent the shift in question, we should expect the …
Analogical Weak Preterite Forms in Old Icelandic
The purpose of this paper is to show the probable point (or points) of contact between the strong and the weak verbal systems, which resulted in the development of a new analogical weak preterite form with dental suffix (which either existed alongside the original strong form or entirely displaced it). Cases of borrowing from an already existent weak verb (such as sφkta ‘sank’ for sǫkk, hangða ‘hung’ for hekk ) will therefore be omitted. It is, h…
The Neuter Gender of old Norse fljōđ and sprund
Notes on Certain Gothic Forms
NotesThat Goth. sitan represents a PG *sitan without j-suffix, as Streitberg (Zur germ. Sprachgeschichte, pp. 15 ff.; Urgerm. Grammatik, p. 286) assumes, is, in view of the j-suffix in North and West Germanic, extremely doubtful; cf. Hirt, Handbuch des Urgerm., II, 193.The regular nominative plural ending -jus of the u-declension is occasionally preserved (cf. aggil-jus alongside aggil-eis, diakaun-jus, [galiuga-]xrist-jus) but never the correspo…
Miscellaneous Gothic Notes
NotesCf. liuhtjai liuhaÞ (Matt. 5: 16), klismo klismjandei (Cor. 8: 1) with abba, atta.Cf. Jellinek, op. cit., §196, Anm. 2; Kieckers, Handbuch der vgl. got. Grammatik, p. 257.Cf. sōk-jan:sök-i-da ( is = α∧ντoν̂ on a level with mizdōns *seinaizōs > is = α∧ντoν̂), especially since the nom. construction is much less frequent (cf. Eng. "He is his [own) master.").Cf., e.g., τιs βασιλερ́S = has þiudans (instead of has þiudanē), Luke 14: 31.Cf. the nom…
Leveling in Old Icelandic Paradigms
Leveling of the radical vowel in the plural paradigm of the consonantal r -stems denoting family relations. In the plural paradigm of the substantive consonantal declension, i -umlaut of the radical vowel originally occurred only in the nom.-acc. form, since only here did the end syllable contain the vowel i. This vowel status is regularly preserved in the monosyllabic consonantal stems; cf. fφtr (* fōt-iR ) fóta fótum fφtr (* fōt-iR ), from fótr…
Norsk målsoga
Certain Old Norse Secondary Formations
The primary type of these two consonant clusters represents the PGmc. status when the two consonants were not due to the contraction of an intermediate vowel, whereas the secondary was the result of this contraction. In the primary type both Gothic and Old Norse show that l exerted an occlusive force on the following ð; cf. PGmc. *stĕ-staðĕ > *stĕ-stal-ð > Goth, stai-stal-d [not *stai-stal-þ] ‘acquired’; PGmc. *halðĕ > PN *hal-ð > *hal-d [not *ha…
Further Old Norse Secondary Formations
Certain Old Norse secondary formations were discussed in Lg. 29.26-33 (1953). Here I shall continue the discussion by adding examples which at the time of my previous article I had not yet investigated
Reflexive und intransitive Verba im älteren Westgermanischen
Gothic Miscellanea
Notes on Gothic Forms
The verbal reduplicating prefix. If the verbal stem in Gothic contained an initial cluster of two consonants, only the initial consonant was transferred to the prefix, except for the indivisible clusters sk and st (no examples of sp are recorded). The few cases of these two types of transference preserved in Wulfila's Gothic are: type 1 fraisan ‘to attempt’: faífrais, gretan ‘to weep’: gaígrot, flokan ‘to lament’: faíflok, slepan ‘to sleep’: saís…
Theα-Umlaut of u > o in the Old Norse Verbal System
NotesWolfgang Krause in his Abriß der Altwestnordischen Grammatik (Halle [Saale], 1948) mentions (§18, c; p. 11) the fact that a-umlaut of u > o was prevented “durch unmittelbar folgendes ggw, wobei das -w- das umlauthindernde Moment ist: tuggenn ( Goth. p̃aúrsus:PN *p̃urRuR > p̃urr ‘dry.’Cf. Kock, Arkiv, XII, 241 ff.: cf. *skuuē > *skugguē>Goth. skuggwa:ON skugge ‘shadow.’Cf. Noreen, Altisländische und Altnorwegische Grammatik4, §112, 1; Bethge …
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