Past Participle Marking in Mediaeval English. A Corpus-Based Study in Historical Morphology

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The first comprehensive study of changes in Medieval English past participle marking and an attempt to solve a mystery of ge– disappearance in English past participles. Look inside below.

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Wojtyś, Anna. Past Participle Marking in Mediaeval English. Æ Academic Publishing, 2016.

Wojtyś, A. (2016). Past Participle Marking in Mediaeval English. Æ Academic Publishing.

Wojtyś, A. (2016) Past Participle Marking in Mediaeval English. Æ Academic Publishing.

Wojtyś, Anna. Past Participle Marking in Mediaeval English. Æ Academic Publishing, 2016.

Wojtyś A. Past Participle Marking in Mediaeval English. Æ Academic Publishing; 2016.

Anna Wojtyś

Professor (Dr. Hab.) at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw. Her research interests include historical linguistics, sociolinguistics and varieties of English. She has published mainly on the history of English with the focus on morphology and lexis. She is currently working on a monograph devoted to obsolete preterite-present verbs in English.

She is an assistant editor of Warsaw Studies in English Historical Linguistics, the series of monographs published under the auspices of the University of Warsaw, and an assistant editor of Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, the journal in literary, cultural and linguistic studies.

Her research interests include:
history of the English language • language contact • language change • varieties of English • sociolinguistics • morphology • phonetics and phonology

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The monograph is the first comprehensive study of changes in past participle marking in Medieval English. Before the shape of the past participle was established as we now know it, the historical form used to be marked redundantly, attaching both the appropriate suffix and the prefix ge-. The study establishes temporal and geographical conditioning for the loss of such prefixal marking as well as the relation between the suffixation and prefixation. As such, it shall be of great interest especially to all those researching in English historical grammar, but also to readers attracted to dialectal studies.

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Author

Anna Wojtyś

Published in

2016

Series

Warsaw Studies in English Historical Linguistics

Volume

3

Editor

Jerzy Wełna

Edition

2nd ed., repr.

ISBN

ePub: 978-1-68346-123-4, mobi: 978-1-68346-122-7, pdf: 978-1-68346-124-1, ISSN: 2373-2652 (print), 2373-2733 (online)

# of pages

x + 218

Binding

pbk, sewn

Dimensions

138 x 215 mm

Weight

345 g