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The Generation of Old English Weak Verbs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Robert Howren
Robert Howren*
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University of Iowa
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Abstract

The following description of Old English weak-verb morphophonemics is predicated on a constituent-structure analysis which differs in some respects from that implied in traditional grammars of Old English—particularly in the treatment of the gemination of final stem-consonants of verbs of the first class and the -i- element of verbs of the second class. A system of morphonemes, represented as a matrix of distinctive features, is posited for Old English, and the rules are cast in terms of these features. The resulting description emphasizes the underlying structural regularities of the weak-verb system, and is suggestive of relationships between ordered synchronic rules and linguistic change.

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Language , Volume 43 , Issue 3-Part1 , September 1967, pp. 674 - 685
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Copyright © 1967 Linguistic Society of America

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