The Old English Short Digraphs
Some Considerations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11110511 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert P Stockwell, C Westbrook Barritt |
| Year | 1955 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 372 |
| Publication date | 1955-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/410805 |
| OpenAlex | W2314385674 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 1 |
The objections of Kuhn and Quirk to various reinterpretations of Old English digraph spellings, including our own, have made it clear that extensive discussion of single structure points in the overall frame of the Old English phonological system is a wasteful procedure. The system and the minimal oppositions which make up the system are coexistent and difficult to discuss intelligibly without going through the circular but internally consistent process of describing the one in terms of the other. Taking our departure from a pattern whose outlines were implicit but largely unstated, we attempted to deal with one point of the structure in detail. This kind of presentation seems to have been a mistake, and to have led to some of Kuhn and Quirk's misunderstanding of OP 4. The correction of our error of judgment about presentation must, however, await further research and publication, undertaken not to prove a thesis but to arrive at the most complete, consistent, and economical interpretation of the total evidence. The present article, therefore, only points out some matters of fact and clarifies the basic disagreements
Linguistics · Natural language processing · Computer Science · History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2026 (35) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |