The Malt stone as evidence for a morphological archaism

Autor:	Lars Heltoft
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language Carving History Reading (process) media_common.quotation_subject Kinship Oblique case Context (language use) Language and Linguistics Genealogy media_common Plural Archaism
Zdroj:	NOWELE / North-Western European Language Evolution. 73:4-20
ISSN:	2212-9715 0108-8416
DOI:	10.1075/nowele.00031.hel
Popis:	The form fauþr ‘father’ on the Malt stone is normally understood as a carving error for faþur, but could very well be read at face value as a one-syllable form fǫðr, an archaic accusative singular. In a wider Proto-Germanic context, I propose that this form is part of an early levelling process of the kinship terms to one-syllable stem forms, an alternative paradigm co-existing with the classical hysterodynamic paradigm documented in the Gothic singular. This levelling takes place not only in the plural, but also in the oblique cases of the singular. In a Scandinavian context, this reading sheds light on a handful of seemingly aberrant forms.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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