Hinn and hinn: Early Icelandic as the clue to the history and etymology of two Old Scandinavian words

IF 0.5 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Ulla Stroh-Wollin
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ABSTRACT The history and etymology of Old Scandinavian hinn is a disputed matter. One question concerns whether hinn as a contrastive demonstrative indicating ‘the other (one)/the former (one)’ and hinn as a pre-adjectival article, both of which to some extent are still found in present-day Icelandic, are related or not. Another issue concerns the fact that hinn has no immediate parallel in Germanic outside Scandinavia, which has led scholars to assume that it is a Proto-Scandinavian innovation. This paper argues that Old Scandinavian possessed two hinn words with separate backgrounds, one stemming directly from an anciently inherited distal demonstrative, and one from an innovated proximal demonstrative. However, the innovation was no more founded on common Germanic material than the former hinn was. Instead, it arose from the reinforcement of an ancient precursor. This precursor is traceable in early Icelandic enn, which was used as a pre-adjectival article and as a primitive post-nominal definiteness marker.
Hinn和Hinn:早期冰岛语作为两个古斯堪的纳维亚单词历史和词源的线索
摘要古斯堪的纳维亚hinn的历史和词源一直是一个有争议的问题。一个问题是,hinn作为表示“另一个(一个)/前一个(另一个)”的对比指示语,和hinn作为形容词前冠词,在某种程度上仍然存在于今天的冰岛语中,两者是否有关联。另一个问题涉及这样一个事实,即hinn在斯堪的纳维亚以外的日耳曼语中没有直接的相似之处,这导致学者们认为它是原斯堪的那维亚创新。本文认为,古斯堪的纳维亚语有两个不同背景的hinn词,一个直接源于古代继承的远指示词,另一个源于创新的近指示词。然而,这一创新并不比前一个hinn更基于普通的日耳曼材料。相反,它产生于对一个古老的前身的强化。这种前体可以追溯到早期冰岛语enn,它被用作形容词前的冠词和名词后定义性的原始标记。
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