Stress in Old English, giet ongean
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3987524 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Hutton (0000-0002-7779-6874), J F Hutton (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ling.1998.36.5.847 |
| OpenAlex | W1993566415 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The assignment of stress in Old English has been subject to a number of analyses that variously treat it as morphologically or phonologically determined. As versification shows, metrical structure is quantity-sensitive, hence the expected equivalence between ['H] and ['LL]. However, in addition to this, the language also permits word-initial ['LH] and ['L] feet. In this paper I argue that the assignment of stress in Old English was principally morphological, in that its assignment to a specific edge overrode the demands of metrical structure. Furthermore, a morphological analysis has a historical precedence because of the way in which stress assignment in Germanic developed. The morphologically determined stress system that Proto-Germanic inherited from Indo-European was predisposed to the assignment of initial stress. The stress shift in Germanic extended word-initial stress throughout the lexicon but did not affect the morphological basis of assignment. Old English inherited this system along with quantity-sensitive metrical structure. Assignment was complicated by the development of secondary stress, aspects of which such as the stressing of suffixes under secondary derivation, are irrecoverable
Equivalence (formal languages) · Etymology · German · Germanic languages · Lexicon · Linguistics · Stress (linguistics) · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
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| Citation span | 2002 - 2020 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |