<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The study analyzes the Early Old English nominal system from a synchronic perspective, since a diachronic approach is unable to provide an accurate description of the language. The analysis is based on the full text of the Vespasian Psalter interlinear gloss. The nouns were grouped according to their inflectional endings, thus representing the synchronically functioning nominal system of Early Old English, contrary to the traditional, diachronic classification, which uses reconstructed stems to classify nouns. The Vespasian Psalter model is compared and contrasted with the latest ‘classical’ work on Old English, Hogg and Fulk’s A Grammar of Old English. Volume 2: Morphology (2011), which also aims at presenting Old English from a synchronic perspective.</p></abstract>

The study analyzes the Early Old English nominal system from a synchronic perspective, since a diachronic approach is unable to provide an accurate description of the language. The analysis is based on the full text of the Vespasian Psalter interlinear gloss. The nouns were grouped according to their inflectional endings, thus representing the synchronically functioning nominal system of Early Old English, contrary to the traditional, diachronic classification, which uses reconstructed stems to classify nouns. The Vespasian Psalter model is compared and contrasted with the latest ‘classical’ work on Old English, Hogg and Fulk’s A Grammar of Old English. Volume 2: Morphology (2011), which also aims at presenting Old English from a synchronic perspective.

Early Old English Nominal System: Synchronic Declensions in the Vespasian Psalter

Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

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The study analyzes the Early Old English nominal system from a synchronic perspective, since a diachronic approach is unable to provide an accurate description...

Early Old English Nominal System: Synchronic Declensions in the Vespasian Psalter

Published Online: Jun 13, 2014

Page range: 35 - 48

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/stap-2013-0013

Keywords
morphology, Early Old English, inflection, inflectional endings, nouns, grammatical gender, paradigm

© 2014

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Early Old English Nominal System: Synchronic Declensions in the Vespasian Psalter

Published Online: Jun 13, 2014

Page range: 35 - 48

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/stap-2013-0013

Keywordsmorphology, Early Old English, inflection, inflectional endings, nouns, grammatical gender, paradigm

© 2014

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Keywords
morphology, Early Old English, inflection, inflectional endings, nouns, grammatical gender, paradigm