Sverre Stausland Johnsen
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sverre Stausland Johnsen is involved.
Article
2015 Vowel reduction in verbs in King Alfred’s Pastoral Care Historical Linguistics 2013: Selected papers from the 21st International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Oslo, 5-9 August 2013, Haug, Dag T.T. (ed.), pp. 19–40 | Article
An original unstressed vowel *ō generally develops to a in Old English. In some categories, however, both a and u are found as reflexes. The traditional explanation for this phenomenon posits that *ō developed to u when the following syllable also had a *u. A statistical analysis of the… read more
