From: Berglaug Ásmundardóttir
Message: 3850
Date: 2003-11-22
>brahmabull@... writes:
> That's a lot of misspellings.
> Did Lass make as many misspellings for the other Germanic languages?
> I noticed that the copyright is 1994,
> but can you verify that this is the first edition,
> and not just a new printing with the first edition
> being, say, 1904, or something like that?
>
>
> In a message dated 11/21/2003 2:25:11 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>
> >
> >
> > Greetings!
> >
> > I am an amateur, interested in Old Norse as part of early Germanic. I
> > have been reading Roger Lass's <Old English: A historical linguistic
> > companion> (Cambridge: 1994) and find it helpful in getting control of
> > some basics.
> >
> > There are some misprints or mistakes in the book, and one whole class
> > of them involves Old Icelandic. Can anybody tell me what these forms
> > represent? Oldest attestations, or maybe a mnemonic scheme for learning
> > the paradigms? I have Gordon's book, which I take as my authority.
> >
> > 1. Lass has /e/ for /i/ wherever this appears in the dative singular
> > masc and neut. Even /deg-e/, where he explains the stem change is due
> > to i-umlaut. For i-stem gestr Lass gives nom. pl. gest-er and acc. pl.
> > gest-e.
> >
> > 2. The u-stem example is even stranger:
> > sg.
> > N sun-r for son-r
> > G son-ar
> > D syn-e for syn-i
> > A sun for son
> > pl.
> > N syn-er for syn-ir
> > G son-a
> > D sun-um
> > A sun-o for sun-u
> >
> > BUT a dative -i for foet-i (with oe=ligature)
> >
> > 3. Here is the present conjugation of bera
> > sg
> > 1 bær-a
> > 2 bær-er
> > 3 bær-e
> > pl
> > 1 bær-em
> > 2 bær-eÞ
> > 3 bær-e
> >
> > I understand from Gordon that ö (hook o) to á and then i-ulaut to æ.
> > So why /e/ for /i/ in all the endings?
> >
> > 4. Last thing: for '9' and '10' Lass gives OIc nió and tió, instead of
> > the expected níu and tíu; '11' is ellefo for ellifu.
> >
> > This is not an exhaustive list! I am going to write all these up for
> > the author, but before I can do that I would like to have some idea his
> > reasoning.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Gazariah
> >
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