In this volume, the author s selected writings that he has written during the past 40 years will be presented. The topics treated range from the dissemination of early (insular) manuscripts on the European continent and Celtic-English linguistic contact to selected features of English dialectal variation. These are correlated with several extralinguistic factors, such as the results of haematological research. One contribution on computer cartography appears in French. In diesem Band werden ausgewahlte Beitrage des Autors vorgestellt, die dieser in den letzten 40 Jahren geschrieben hat....
In this volume, the author s selected writings that he has written during the past 40 years will be presented. The topics treated range from the disse...
This book attempts to build a complete theory of stress in Old English. In particular, the author tries to elucidate the relation, in that language, between stress placement and syllable weight. Eventually, he finds that the syllable should be abandoned as the central notion of Old English metrical phonology and replaced with the mora as an independent unit of phonological quantity. These findings are then applied to a new, phonologically-based analysis of the rhythm of Old English poetry.
This book attempts to build a complete theory of stress in Old English. In particular, the author tries to elucidate the relation, in that language, b...
