tracking change: a corpus of narrative etymologies ( cone )
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Tracking change: a Corpus of Narrative Etymologies ( CoNE ). Rhona Alcorn Institute for Historical Dialectology University of Edinburgh. Handbooks: catalogues of change processes. Hogg (1992). OE bæþ ‘bath’. Wright & Wright (1925). OE bæþ ‘bath’. Wright & Wright (1925). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Tracking change: a Corpus of Narrative Etymologies (CoNE)Rhona AlcornInstitute for Historical DialectologyUniversity of Edinburgh
+Handbooks: catalogues of change processes
+Hogg (1992)
+OE bæþ ‘bath’Wright & Wright (1925)
+OE bæþ ‘bath’Wright & Wright (1925)
§292. Gmc [*β] > OE [b] (VFH) e.g. bæþ, blind ‘blind’, bæc ‘back’
§54. Gmc [*ɑ] > OE [æ] (FF) e.g. bæþ, dæl ‘dale’, bæc ‘back’
§301. Gmc [*θ] > OE [θ] e.g. bæþ, āþ ‘oath’, broþ ‘broth’
§302. OE [θ] > OE [ð] intervocalically (MFV) e.g. broþ ‘broth’ ~ brōþer ‘brother’, bæþ [θ] ~ bæþes [ð]
‘bath’s’ §57. OE [æ] > OE [ɑ] before a back vowel (RA)
e.g. bæþ [bæθ] ~ baþu [bɑðu] ‘baths’
+Catalogues of change outcomes
+‘bath’
+‘bath’
+‘bath’
+‘bath’
+Bridging the gap
A Corpus of Narrative Etymologies (CoNE) unpacks the evolution of individual items from their presumed phonological shape in PrOE to their form(s) in LAEME’s Corpus of Tagged Texts. (French items – later phase of project.)
Underpinning CoNE is our Corpus of Changes (CC). This documents all of the changes — phonological, morphological and orthographic —invoked in CoNE’s individual word histories. CC currently itemises 222 changes.
CoNE and CC will be freely available web-based resources Demonstration: base phonology of ‘bath’ (= LAEME $bath/n) …
+Morphology
Nouns are tagged in LAEME to indicate: function: e.g. /n (subject), /nOd (object, direct), n<pr (object
of P) number: e.g. /nOd (sg), /nplOd (pl)
LAEME grammels correspond to OE paradigm members, e.g.: /n corresponds to OE nom. sg. /nplOd corresponds to OE acc. pl. /n<pr corresponds to OE acc. or dat. sg.
Demonstration: morphology of ‘bath’ …
+References Campbell, A. 1959. Old English grammar. Oxford: Clarendon Press. DOE = Dictionary of Old English: A to G online. Cameron, A., A.C. Amos & A.
diPaolo Healey. 2007. [Electronic resource.] Hogg, R.M. 1992. A grammar of Old English, vol. 1 Phonology. Oxford: Blackwell. Hogg, R.M. & R.D. Fulk. 2011. A grammar of Old English, vol. 2 Morphology.
Oxford: Blackwell. LAEME = A Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English 1150–1325. 2007- . M. Laing
& R. Lass. [Electronic resource.] MED = Middle English Dictionary. 1956-2001. Kurath, H., S.M. Kuhn & R.E. Lewis.
[Electronic resource.] OED = Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd edn. [Electronic resource.] Wright, J. & E.M. Wright. 1925. Old English grammar, 3rd edn. London: OUP.