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Tracking change: a Corpus of Narrative Etymologies ( CoNE )

Tracking change: a Corpus of Narrative Etymologies ( CoNE ). Rhona Alcorn Institute for Historical Dialectology University of Edinburgh. Handbooks: catalogues of change processes. Hogg (1992). OE bæþ ‘bath’. Wright & Wright (1925). OE bæþ ‘bath’. Wright & Wright (1925).

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Tracking change: a Corpus of Narrative Etymologies ( CoNE )

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  1. Tracking change: a Corpus of Narrative Etymologies (CoNE) Rhona Alcorn Institute for Historical Dialectology University of Edinburgh

  2. Handbooks: catalogues of change processes

  3. Hogg (1992)

  4. OE bæþ‘bath’ Wright & Wright (1925)

  5. OE bæþ‘bath’ Wright & Wright (1925) §292. Gmc [*β] > OE [b] (VFH) e.g. bæþ, blind ‘blind’, bæc ‘back’ §54. Gmc [*ɑ] > OE [æ] (FF) e.g. bæþ, dæl ‘dale’, bæc ‘back’ §301. Gmc [*θ] > OE [θ] e.g. bæþ, āþ ‘oath’, broþ ‘broth’ §302. OE [θ] > OE [ð] intervocalically(MFV) e.g. broþ ‘broth’ ~ brōþer ‘brother’,bæþ[θ] ~ bæþes[ð] ‘bath’s’ §57. OE [æ] > OE [ɑ] before a back vowel (RA) e.g. bæþ[bæθ]~ baþu[bɑðu] ‘baths’

  6. Catalogues of change outcomes

  7. ‘bath’

  8. ‘bath’

  9. ‘bath’

  10. ‘bath’

  11. Bridging the gap • A Corpus of Narrative Etymologies (CoNE) unpacks the evolution of individual items from their presumed phonological shape in PrOE to their form(s) in LAEME’s Corpus of Tagged Texts. (French items – later phase of project.) • Underpinning CoNE is our Corpus of Changes (CC). This documents all of the changes —phonological, morphological and orthographic —invoked in CoNE’s individual word histories. CC currently itemises 222 changes. • CoNE and CC will be freely available web-based resources • Demonstration: base phonology of ‘bath’ (= LAEME $bath/n) …

  12. Morphology • Nouns are tagged in LAEME to indicate: • function: e.g. /n (subject), /nOd (object, direct), n<pr (object of P) • number: e.g. /nOd (sg), /nplOd (pl) • LAEME grammels correspond to OE paradigm members, e.g.: • /n corresponds to OE nom. sg. • /nplOd corresponds to OE acc. pl. • /n<pr corresponds to OE acc. or dat. sg. • Demonstration: morphology of ‘bath’ …

  13. References • Campbell, A. 1959. Old English grammar. Oxford: Clarendon Press. • DOE = Dictionary of Old English: A to G online. Cameron, A., A.C. Amos & A. diPaolo Healey. 2007. [Electronic resource.] • Hogg, R.M. 1992. A grammar of Old English, vol. 1 Phonology. Oxford: Blackwell. • Hogg, R.M. & R.D. Fulk. 2011. A grammar of Old English, vol. 2 Morphology. Oxford: Blackwell. • LAEME = A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English 1150–1325. 2007- . M. Laing & R. Lass. [Electronic resource.] • MED = Middle English Dictionary. 1956-2001. Kurath, H., S.M. Kuhn & R.E. Lewis. [Electronic resource.] • OED = Oxford English Dictionary,3rd edn. [Electronic resource.] • Wright, J. & E.M. Wright. 1925. Old English grammar, 3rd edn. London: OUP.

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