{"title":"The position of the verb in Gothic","authors":"C. Falluomini","doi":"10.1075/NOWELE.00010.FAL","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/NOWELE.00010.FAL","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The aim of this paper is to offer a descriptive analysis of the position of the verb in the recently discovered Gothic fragment of Bologna\u0000 (Gothica Bononiensia) – a text that seems to be independent of Greek or Latin models – in order to highlight analogies to\u0000 and differences from other Gothic texts. The analysis shows that the position of the verb is relatively free, both in main and in\u0000 subordinate clauses, with some exceptions (negatives, wh-questions and imperatives). The text exhibits the coexistence of\u0000 competing grammatical constructions, used to satisfy pragmatic and stylistic requirements.","PeriodicalId":41411,"journal":{"name":"NOWELE-North-Western European Language Evolution","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88780175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jack Feuillet. Grammaire du Gotique","authors":"Roland Schuhmann","doi":"10.1075/nowele.00016.sch","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/nowele.00016.sch","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41411,"journal":{"name":"NOWELE-North-Western European Language Evolution","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75874329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The phonology and morphology of foreign words in Gothic revisited","authors":"Magnús Snædal","doi":"10.1075/NOWELE.00012.SNA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/NOWELE.00012.SNA","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The present paper focuses on foreign names and loan words in the Gothic text corpus. The names are mostly Hebrew in origin but were\u0000 transferred to Gothic through Greek. Their phonetic, phonological and graphemic adaption will be discussed in light of the close connection\u0000 between the Wulfilian and Greek alphabets. In addition, we will raise the question and discuss whether some names are not fully adapted to\u0000 the Gothic inflection but remain Greek in form, as well as why foreign words are sometimes not assigned to the inflectional class which\u0000 would appear to be the most natural one.","PeriodicalId":41411,"journal":{"name":"NOWELE-North-Western European Language Evolution","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75954128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Another hypothesis concerning the grammar and meaning of Inter eils goticum","authors":"Yuri A. Kleiner","doi":"10.1075/NOWELE.00014.KLE","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/NOWELE.00014.KLE","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In the Germanic part of the epigram, Inter eils goticum scapia matzia ia drincan, preserved in\u0000 Codex Salmasianus, it seems most reasonable to isolate scapia and gloss it as the 1st person sg. of the verb\u0000 corresponding to Gothic skapjan ‘make’. \u0000 Intereilsgoticum scapiamatzia iadrincan\u0000 \u0000 Non audet quisquam dignos edicere uersus.\u0000 Calliope madido trepidat se iungere Baccho,\u0000 Ne pedibus non stet ebria Musa suis.\u0000 \u0000 Anthologia Latina 285 \u0000 \u0000 (Riese 1869: 187)1\u0000 \u0000 \u0000","PeriodicalId":41411,"journal":{"name":"NOWELE-North-Western European Language Evolution","volume":"90 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84314424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Greek ἀρχιερεύς in Gothic translation","authors":"Artūras Ratkus","doi":"10.1075/NOWELE.00002.RAT","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/NOWELE.00002.RAT","url":null,"abstract":"One of the most remarkable examples of variation in the Gothic Bible is the translation of the Greek compound ἀρχιeρeύς ‘chief priest’, accorded as many as seven different Gothic renderings. By examining the distribution of the Gothic examples and the contexts in which they occur, this paper challenges the traditional assumptions on the variation and argues that the variants are due to the exegetical and creative inputs of the translator. It is improbable that the variation was brought about under the influence of pre-Vulgate Latin and unlikely that the different renderings were introduced by putative post-Wulfilian revisers of the Gothic text. The findings call into question the traditional narrative of Wulfila’s single-handed translation of the Bible into Gothic.","PeriodicalId":41411,"journal":{"name":"NOWELE-North-Western European Language Evolution","volume":"14 1","pages":"3-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72979489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Verb-third in Otfrid’s Evangelienbuch","authors":"Katerina Somers","doi":"10.1075/NOWELE.00004.SOM","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/NOWELE.00004.SOM","url":null,"abstract":"This article investigates the status of so-called verb-final declaratives in Otfrid’s Evangelienbuch , with a focus on whether clauses in which there is no apparent subordinator and the finite verb occurs later than the expected verb-first or verb-second position can be treated as verb-third (V3) clauses, as they are defined for Old High German in works such as Axel (2007) and Tomaselli (1995) . Drawing on a set of 746 clauses, I argue that there is no evidence that the finite verbs in these clauses have undergone verb movement, as is claimed in the aforementioned works, nor are the asyndetic verb-late clauses with a verb in surface third position consistent with the patterns identified in the generative literature for the V3 type.","PeriodicalId":41411,"journal":{"name":"NOWELE-North-Western European Language Evolution","volume":"20 1","pages":"56-98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82553526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sprachverlust und Halbsprecher einer sterbenden Sprache : Die Infinitivendungen in der friesischen Sprache des Harlingerlandes","authors":"A. Versloot","doi":"10.1075/NOWELE.00005.VER","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/NOWELE.00005.VER","url":null,"abstract":"Dying language varieties are often characterised by attrition of their structural features and large scale borrowing from the competing dominant language. The linguistic characteristics of such a dying language are particularly difficult to interpret when an extinct language is only scarcely attested (Trummersprache) and its major informant is a non-native, who learned the language from native speakers who were potentially only imperfect learners. The East Frisian Harlingerland dialect is attested only in a manuscript booklet from the late 17th century (1691), written by the local priest Johannes Cadovius-Muller, who was not a native speaker of Frisian. He uses the two infinitive markers of Frisian in an unhistorical way. This study tries to disentangle whether this is the result of his individual imperfect learning of the language or of a restructuring in the language of the natives speakers. It is hypothesised that the last generation of native speakers of the dialect developed a synchronic phonological rule for the distribution of the two infinitive markers, based on vowel harmony, which was again partly distorted by Cadovius-Mullers imperfect learning.","PeriodicalId":41411,"journal":{"name":"NOWELE-North-Western European Language Evolution","volume":"31 1","pages":"99-118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91287859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patterns of retention of the instrumental case in Old English","authors":"Aaron Freeman","doi":"10.1075/NOWELE.00003.FRE","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/NOWELE.00003.FRE","url":null,"abstract":"In addition to the Germanic nominative, accusative, dative, and genitive cases still present in modern German and Icelandic, Old English inherited a fifth case known as the instrumental. This case was marginal and not consistently distinguishable from the dative, with which it had merged by the beginning of the Middle English period. This article establishes the patterns of use of the instrumental and the mechanism of its loss, through analysis of syntactically annotated corpora of Old English texts. It is found that the case survived primarily through probabilistic selection in a set of highly restricted contexts which developed independently of each other, in some cases merging with the dative and in others solidifying into morphologically indecomposable constructions.","PeriodicalId":41411,"journal":{"name":"NOWELE-North-Western European Language Evolution","volume":"14 1","pages":"35-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82398713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Schwyter, Jürg R. (2016) Dictating to the Mob. The History of the BBC Advisory Committee on Spoken English","authors":"J. Beal","doi":"10.1075/NOWELE.00006.BEA","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/NOWELE.00006.BEA","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41411,"journal":{"name":"NOWELE-North-Western European Language Evolution","volume":"17 1","pages":"119-125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83957603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Borgarmålet: A Sámi-Swedish pidgin from the beginning of the 18th century","authors":"Jurij Kusmenko","doi":"10.1075/NOWELE.70.1.03KUS","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1075/NOWELE.70.1.03KUS","url":null,"abstract":"Borgarmalet ‘language of the townspeople’ was a trade idiom used by the Swedish townspeople and the Sami during periods of seasonal trade in Swedish Lule Lappmark at the beginning of the 18th century. The analysis of the five sentences in this trade language provided by P. Hogstrom (in a book published in 1747 ) allows us to suggest that Borgarmalet was a typical pidgin characterized by a vocabulary derived mostly from the superstrate language (Swedish), by a stable simplified grammatical structure without synthetic forms and by direct or transformed grammatical interference from the substrate language (Sami). Borgarmalet was also characterised by innovations of its own in word-formation as well as in grammar, a feature typical of pidgins. A special feature to differentiate Borgarmalet from other pidgins is a transfer of aspectuality – expressed in Sami by different suffixes but in Borgarmalet with the help of lexical means from Swedish.","PeriodicalId":41411,"journal":{"name":"NOWELE-North-Western European Language Evolution","volume":"175 1","pages":"39-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77492293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}