Compiled by Thomas Markey, R.L. Kyes and Paul T. Roberge
Germanists have long lamented the lack of comprehensive bibliographies of past and present literature, particularly in the areas of Frisian, Old English, Old High German, and, most notably, Old Saxon. The compilers of this bibliography deem it crucial to fill this lacuna before embarking on two… read more
This volume contains a reprint of the English translation (1843) by Sir George Webbe Dasent of Rask’s Anvising till Isländskan eller Nordiska Fornspråket (1818). This re-edition, with an added bio-bibliography of Rask, should enable the linguist of today to obtain a fairly rounded picture of this… read more
Here, Hamp’s (1980) etymology of Gmc. *blōđ- ‘blood’ from a participial adjective *bhlō-tó-m ‘gushed, spurted’ from a State II *bhleh3
- that was left behind after the deletion of its head noun is accepted and reiterated. It is then shown that Gmc. *blōđ- ‘blood’ and blōtan ‘to worship,… read more
SUMMARY Suppletion is broadly defined to include a wide range of formal irregularities, e.g., nonce formations, zero-alternations, failures to extend base forms, heteroclites. As a process, it is shown to be recursive, to effect but a relatively restricted set of morpho-syntactic categories… read more
