Robert W. Murray
List of John Benjamins publications in which Robert W. Murray is involved.
1995 Phonologically based mmorphological change: high-vowel deletion and pardigmatic implications in Old English Historical Linguistics 1993: Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Los Angeles, 16–20 August 1993, Andersen, Henning (ed.), pp. 323–336 | Article
1994 Proto-Romance and the Origin of the Romance Languages Lingvisticæ Investigationes 18:2, pp. 371–376 | Article
1992 Sound Change, Preferences, and Explanation: A Response to Picard Lingvisticæ Investigationes 16:2, pp. 421–441 | Discussion
Based on data from Romance historical phonology, Picard (1990) attempts to demonstrate that the preference theory for syllable structure developed in Vennemann (1988a), Murray (1988), and elsewhere is inadequate. In this response, I argue that Picard's criticisms are vitiated by a number of flaws… read more
1991 Early Germanic Syllable Structure Revisited Diachronica 8:2, pp. 201–238 | Article
SUMMARY This paper discusses four approaches to the reconstruction of the early Germanic syllabication of VCRV and VCRV sequences; A) Murray & Vennemann (1983) and Murray (1988), B) Barrack (1989), C) Dresher & Lahiri (1991), and D) Liberman (1990). Approach A develops a two-stage analysis… read more
1988 The Shortening of Stressed Long Vowels in old English Diachronica 5:1/2, pp. 73–107 | Article
SUMMARY Although it is generally assumed that shortening of stressed vowels in Old English occurred in two environments (viz. preceding two consonants in trisyllabic words, e.g., samcucu and preceding three consonants in disyllabic words, e.g., broemblas, godspell ), it is argued in this paper that… read more