On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:57:09 +0100, Piotr Gasiorowski
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gpiotr@...> wrote:
>On 05-03-10 06:56, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>
>> A further Web search turned up "Reduplication and the Old
>> English strong verbs [of?] class VII , Studia Anglica
>> Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies;
>> Author: Adamczyk, Elz.bieta", but in order to read it, you
>> have to give your credit card number to some people called
>> "High Beam Research", which I don't want to do.
>>
>> The logical person to ask whether the article contains any
>> relevant material (or is interesting otherwise) would be
>> Piotr. No?]
>
>I was the supervisor of Ela Adamczyk's PhD dissertation (on the fate of
>Verner's Law in Old and Middle English conjugations), so how could I
>call the stuff she writes uninteresting? If she has kept an electronic
>copy of her SAP article and is eager to share it, it can be done easily.
>I'll probably see her later today.
My thanks to Piotr and Elz.bieta Adamczyk. The article
contains the reference I was after (Brugmann/Wood 1895),
unfortunately no summary of what Brugmann's "ablaut theory"
of the Germanic Class VII verbs is about.
One of the phenomena commented on by Adamczyk is the effect
of Verner's law on the Germanic reduplicated forms. O.N.
sera, the other "r-preterites", and even Gothic sezle:p (~
sesle:p) point to Verner in the second (root) syllable, on
the pattern of *p&2té:r > *fádar : *seslé:p > *sézle:p.
But if you think about it, it is far from evident that this
should be so. One might equally have expected the
reduplication syllable to be treated in the way unstressed
pre-verbs such as *k(o)m- or *po- were treated. The
reduplication would then be sle:pan => *zesle:p, haldan =>
*gehald, or, if ablauting verbs originally also
reduplicated, faran => *befo:r. What if this was indeed the
way reduplication worked originally in Germanic, with only
later a shift to the "monomorphemic" *fadar-type? And might
that in part explain the curious NW Gmc. prefixation of past
participles with ge- or be- or *uz- (> or-, er-, der-) [the
latter perhaps confused with *ze- or even *de- of
reduplication syllables]?
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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