From: tgpedersen
Message: 47008
Date: 2007-01-17
>Thanks!
> On 2007-01-16 00:02, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > BTW where can one find on the net verbal paradigms of OE dialects
> > other than West Saxon (I assume the standard is)?
>
> I don't know of any online sources. As for books, Karl Brunner's
> Altenglische Grammatik discusses all the "dialectal" (non-LWS)
> material; Alistair Campbell's OE Grammar is also full of notes on
> dialectal forms.
> Interestingly, while Brunner essentially accepts North. pl. (and
> only pl.) <dedun> (in Lindisfarne Gospels and Rushworth Gospels 2)
> with /e:/, Campbell goes to some lengths to explain it away.
>
> Kent. dede/dedun must be left out of consideration, since in Kentish
> y > e; the e-forms in Alfred's Cura Pastoralis may be Kentisms. The
> somewhat aberrant form <deodan> in the Codex Aureus (with back
> umlaut proving that the vowel is short), once believed to be
> Mercian, isn't so: the CA is now considered "linguistically to be
> aligned with Kt." (Hogg 1992).
> However, the Northumbrian forms cannot be accounted for in this way,
> and the fact that in OE transcripts of poetry we find <dædon> with
> <æ> (/æ:/) evidently means that the scribes assumed that Old Anglian
> <e> stood for /e:/ in this word. So, while the evidence is not as
> solid as one might wish, OAngl. /de:d-/ in the pret. ind./subj. pl.
> looks real enough.