Gjertrud F. Stenbrenden
List of John Benjamins publications in which Gjertrud F. Stenbrenden is involved.
2025 Progressive aspect in English: Developments in early Middle English The Progressive Revisited: Historical and Quantitative Studies in Germanic and Romance Languages, Carlucci, Alessandro and Jerzy Nykiel (eds.), pp. 22–46 | Chapter
The present chapter investigates cases in early ME in which the etymological endings of the OE present participle -ende and the OE gerund -ing are confused, i.e., are used unetymologically. My findings are that in the 13th century, the etymological gerundial ending -ing is in the process of… read more
2024 A modern light on diachronic processes affecting coda /l/ in English Keys to the History of English: Diachronic linguistic change, morpho-syntax and lexicography, Porck, Thijs, Moragh S. Gordon and Luisella Caon (eds.), pp. 82–102 | Chapter
This paper examines historical changes affecting coda laterals in British English, in the light of findings from articulatory phonology, with some insights from acoustic and perceptual phonetics as well. Historically, coda laterals induce pre-lateral diphthongisation and are themselves… read more
2023 The rise and fall and rise of the digraph 〈oa〉 in English NOWELE 76:2, pp. 127–152 | Article
The present paper examines the history of the digraph 〈oa〉 in English: it is relatively rare in OE and early ME, falls out of use in late ME, and reappears in the late fifteenth century. Different lexemes have been spelt with 〈oa〉 in the different language periods, but in the majority of cases,… read more
2022 Chapter 1. Grimm’s Law and Verner’s Law: Towards a unified phonetic account English Historical Linguistics: Change in structure and meaning, Los, Bettelou, Claire Cowie, Patrick Honeybone and Graeme Trousdale (eds.), pp. 15–40 | Chapter
This paper gives a unified account of Grimm’s and Verner’s Laws in light of findings from experimental phonetics. The Germanic stress shift and stress placement shift are separate phenomena, and I argue that Iverson & Salmons’ (2003) shift in ‘articulatory setting’ corresponds to the former, and… read more
2015 The development of early Middle English ō: Spelling evidence Historical Linguistics 2013: Selected papers from the 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oslo, 5-9 August 2013, Haug, Dag T.T. (ed.), pp. 41–52 | Article
This paper seeks to determine the developments of Old English/early Middle English ō in Middle English dialects, by making use of irregular spellings extracted from three corpora of Middle English dialect material, as well as from other sources of localised Middle English texts. I argue (a) that… read more
2003
On the interpretation of early evidence for ME vowel-change
Historical Linguistics 2001: Selected papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Melbourne, 13–17 August 2001, Blake, Barry J. and Kate Burridge (eds.), pp. 403–415 | Article