William W. Kruger

List of John Benjamins publications in which William W. Kruger is involved.

Book series

Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

General Editor: Elly van Gelderen

ISSN 0166-0829

Articles

Kruger, William W. 2020 Homorganic Cluster Lengthening, Pre-Cluster Shortening and Preference-based change in Early English Journal of Historical Linguistics 10:1, pp. 87–110 | Article

This paper discusses the processes of Homorganic Cluster Lengthening (HCL) and Pre-Cluster Shortening (PCS) occurring in the late Old English and Early Middle English periods. These processes are responsible, respectively, for vowel-lengthening before voiced homorganic consonant clusters (OE… read more

Kruger, William W. 2019 Verbal prefixes in Old Northumbrian: Evidence from the Lindisfarne glosses The Northumbrian Old English glosses, Gelderen, Elly van (ed.), pp. 192–219 | Article

In late Old English dialects, adverbial elements are frequently morphologically ambiguous (independent words, clitics, verbal prefixes, etc.), and an important facet of the proper treatment of these items is the quality of source-data in different texts. This paper examines the usage of three… read more